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3 days ago · Red Sun was a French-Italian co-production starring America’s Charles Bronson, France’s Alain Delon and Japan’s Toshiro Mifune in a Spaghetti Western. Directing the film was Terence Young, who had helmed Dr. No and From Russia with Love. Ursula Andress and Capucine added to the massive international star power. Red Sun is set in 1870. The ...
2 days ago · Mifune’s samurai is unshaven, unkempt, scratches a lot, drinks more, laughs heartily, is really good with a katana, and rejects fidelity and honor in the name of self-sufficiency. If ever there was an archetype for a post-war hero, particularly for nations who had their past ripped away from them because of the war, this was it.
3 days ago · A retrospective review of Sergio Leone's 1964 spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch & Josef Egger.
5 days ago · Starring: Charles Bronson, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress, Capucine, Barta Barri, Anthony Dawson, Guido Lollobrigida, Gianni Medici. Year: 1971. Runtime: 112 minutes. Country: France, Italy, Spain
3 days ago · If one had to chisel a Mount Rushmore of so-called foreign films from the influential midcentury period, surely the image of Toshiro Mifune’s mad swordsman Kikuchiyo from Seven Samurai would be among the four granite faces, right next to the cloaked figure of death from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), Marcello Mastroianni with the fedora and whip from Federico Fellini’s self ...
1 day ago · Wantanabe especially is like Toshiro Mifune, as he’s wilder, but he’s not in the show so we gotta save him for another day. Hopefully this doesn’t read as racially insensitive, but I also found it difficult to keep track of the Japanese actors (besides Sanada, who I knew beforehand).
1 day ago · In Yojimbo, Toshiro Mifune arrives in a nondescript town apparently chosen at random. Two rival gangs control the town and terrorise the inhabitants. A local beauty is being held as a courtesan by a member of one of the gangs and … but to go on is merely labouring a point.
