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4 days ago · This image released by Janus Films shows Toshirô Mifune in a scene from the 1954 film “Seven Samurai.” (Janus Films via AP) (Janus Films) Photo Gallery
2 days ago · What can be said is that Mifune’s character is an essential piece of a masterwork by Kurosawa, a film doused in moral and philosophical ambiguity that has audiences switch allegiances after every viewing. In Akira Kurosawa's 1950 drama film 'Rashomon', Toshiro Mifune played Tajomaru, the bandit. But is the character the greatest villain in ...
1 day ago · We are introduced to Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) amidst a volatile discussion on business with his professional peers in his comfortable and luxurious home— a setting we’ll take comfort in ourselves as viewers, as it serves as an oasis from the heatwave made tangible by Kurosawa and company.
5 days ago · Shot in the postwar ruins of occupied Tokyo, Akira Kurosawa’s early buddy-cop thriller will make you feel every drop of sweat in its sweltering summer heat wave. A rookie cop (Toshiro Mifune) loses his gun to a pickpocket; the gun ends up in the hands of a desperate ex-soldier with nothing to lose. As his weapon gets used in a series of escalating, awful crimes, the young detective and his ...
4 days ago · In 16th-century Japan, the great warrior Washizu (Toshiro Mifune, compelling as always) and his friend and fellow soldier Miki (Minoru Chiaki) encounter a forest spirit who informs them that Washizu will soon become the warlord of Spider’s Web Castle (thus suggesting he will murder the current ruler) but his reign will be interrupted when ...
1 day ago · Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune were a filmmaking dream team, having worked together on almost a dozen iconic films that romanticize Japan’s samurai history.
1 day ago · Yojimbo Yojimbo is a 1961 jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tells the story of a rōnin, portrayed by Toshiro Mifune, who arrives in a small town where competing lords vie for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard.
