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Mar 17, 2017 · Mifune’s gestures, mimicking pain in an excessive manner in Seven Samurai or The Rickshaw Man, are more reminiscent of silent movies as part of a global culture than of kyōgen. 20 Rashomon In Kumonosu-jō ( Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa, 1957), inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth , Mifune’s make-up is based on the Noh mask of a noble warrior ( heida ).
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Toshiro Mifune (三船 敏郎, Mifune Toshirō, April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor and producer. A winner of numerous awards and accolades over a lengthy career, Mifune is best known for starring in Akira Kurosawa's critically acclaimed jidaigeki films such as Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958) and Yojimbo (1961).
Apr 3, 2020 · Postwar Japanese cinema—led by Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Naruse, Ozu, Kobayashi—featured many men who were bores and disappointments, and actors such as Chishu Ryu, Tatsuya Nakadai, and Takashi Shimura infused that stoop of failure with inevitability, resonance, depth. Mifune, meanwhile, embodied a different kind of failure, one that looked sexy.
Mifune, in his role as samurai general Washizu, the Macbeth figure who becomes progressively greedy with power driven by his wife, impresses with a ruthless physicality: his frantic, wide-eyed expressions, his sharp but stylised movements that convey strength, intensity, and lust for power, his internal struggles that filter through every gesture.
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- 'Seven Samurai' (1954) At the end of the day, Seven Samurai is the best movie Akira Kurosawa ever made, and it's the best movie Toshiro Mifune ever starred in.
- 'High and Low' (1963) Showing that Akira Kurosawa could make a great crime movie the same way he could make a great samurai movie, High and Low proves to be up there with his best.
- 'Yojimbo' (1961) Yojimbo is another film featuring both Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai, though here, Mifune is certainly the lead. It's a classic Akira Kurosawa movie in every sense of the word, telling the story of a lone wanderer who comes into a small town, sees it's plagued by gang warfare, and then sets about with a scheme that will see both gangs take each other out, all the while he remains in the middle as the last man standing.
- 'The Sword of Doom' (1966) Befitting the morbid title, The Sword of Doom is one of the darkest samurai movies of all time. It follows a swordsman named Ryunosuke, who's notorious for being a cold-blooded, seemingly invincible, and immoral killing machine.
Apr 12, 2023 · In Mifune, Kurosawa had a star, a leading man, a magnet for the camera – and a screen presence to rival any in film history. Toshirô Mifune could exude tough masculinity like Humphrey Bogart. He could do comedy like Cary Grant – and emotion like Marlon Brando. Mifune is a tour de force in two of the best films of all-time.
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Sep 30, 2021 · Although he amassed more than 180 screen credits, Toshiro Mifune (1920-97) will always be remembered for his 16 collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa. Yet he worked with some of Japan’s finest filmmakers, including Mikio Naruse and Kenji Mizoguchi, while also forging enduring partnerships with such lesser lights as Hiroshi Inagaki (21 collaborations), Senkichi Taniguchi (13) and ...
