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Oct 9, 2024 · Each retelling of the story presents a different perspective of the truth with Mifune's character depicted alternately as a villain, a victim, or an unsung hero. The film's innovative narrative structure and exploration of truth and perception helped explode Japanese cinema into the global mainstream.
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Feb 20, 2024 · Supplanting the towering Mifune in this remake/reboot as Lord Toranaga, an expunged daimyo, is Hiroyuki Sanada, who since 2003’s The Last Samurai has become Hollywood’s go-to Japanese thespian to...
Mifune turned down an opportunity from United Artists to play the Japanese spy chief Tiger Tanaka in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967). [27] According to his daughter, he also turned down an offer from George Lucas to play either Darth Vader or Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars (1977).
- A Hero For Japan: Samurai and Tragic Heroes
- Angry Young Men and Suffering Males
- A Presence Which Conveys Meaning
- Performing Individuality
At Dairen High School,6 Mifune excelled at national sports such as karate, kendo and kyūdō (archery). Later he perfected the sword fighting skills required for his roles, and even took part inyabusame competitions (mounted archery on a galloping horse). His muscular body, as displayed in Rashōmon (Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa, 1950) or Seven Samurai, m...
In the early years of his career, Mifune played gangsters – angry young men who represent a new kind of masculinity by expressing individual and collective feelings of insecurity and anxiety about the present and the future. The young robber in Snow Trail is depicted as an aggressive and rebellious youth. Mifune’s Matsunaga in Drunken Angel reveals...
One can easily draw parallels between Mifune and the fictitious character he plays in High and Low. Both Mifune and Gondo are men who have experienced poverty and both have risen dramatically in society by working hard. Throughout his career Mifune not only portrayed noble samurai but also played outcasts – as in Seven Samurai, Samurai (Samurai Ass...
The spectrum of the roles Mifune played developed quickly from angry young men in contemporary settings to samurai roles, extending the complexity of his acting style. In numerous period films Mifune “assimilated the facial expression and bearings of the tateyaku”.21However, his joyful and exuberant acting is, despite all its theatrical impetus, no...
- Drunken Angel (1948) Director: Akira Kurosawa. Working together for the first time, Kurosawa was so impressed by Mifune that he built up his role in this study of yakuza machismo so that Mifune’s tubercular thug confronts crime boss Reiseburo Yamamoto, who is intimidating the alcoholic doctor (Takashi Shimura) who treated him with kindness.
- Stray Dog (1949) Director: Akira Kurosawa. Mifune reteams with Kurosawa and actor Takashi Shimura to play a rookie Tokyo cop whose stolen gun is used in a series of crimes.
- Rashomon (1950) Director: Akira Kurosawa. As the bandit arrested for murdering a samurai in the forest, Mifune gave four performances for the price of one in Kurosawa’s epochal study of screen truth and human nature.
- Seven Samurai (1954) Director: Akira Kurosawa. Toho Co., Ltd. Mifune and Shimura joined forces again in Kurosawa’s epic account of the showdown between a band of 16th-century brigands and the ronin hired by the residents of a mountain village.
Feb 7, 2024 · Nearly a third of American households tuned in to watch a cast led by Richard Chamberlain and the iconic Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune retell the tale of an English navigator’s adventures in...
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Nov 8, 2023 · Stunningly animated, superbly scored, perfectly voice acted, exquisitely unfolded, with wonderful world-building, and action and impact in equal measure, should Netflix's Arcane go straight to the top of your watchlist?
