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Nov 28, 2022 · Toshiro Mifune passed away 25 years ago this December (2022). He was the first non-white superstar of global cinema, the first actor to play a yakuza (in the 1948 Kurosawa movie Drunken Angel), the precursor of Clint Eastwood's "man with no name," and every other cool existential loner via his role in Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa).
Mar 17, 2017 · Mifune’s name is undoubtedly closely connected with the jidai geki (period film) and its sub-category, the chambara, as the title of the recent documentary Mifune: The Last Samurai (Steven Okazaki, 2015) recalls. However, Mifune was a far more versatile actor than his star image suggests.
May 24, 2023 · Few Japanese actors who've graced the silver screen throughout history are quite as legendary or prolific as Toshiro Mifune.He was born in 1920 and spent nearly 50 years acting from the late 1940s ...
Aug 4, 2023 · Toshiro Mifune’s Death and Legacy The renowned actor continued to work into his 70s. His last film was Kei Kumai’s Deep River, a spiritual and religious journey into the heart of India based on Shusaku Endo’s novel of the same name. That was released in 1995, the same year his estranged wife Sachiko Yoshimine died.
Toshiro Mifune. Highest Rated: 100% The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Lowest Rated: 0% Inchon! (1981) Birthday: Apr 1, 1920. Birthplace: Tsingtao, China. Although he had originally planned to work in ...
Nov 23, 2016 · Toshiro Mifune was the first movie hero who wasn’t a white guy. He didn’t demean himself or belittle his culture. And he didn’t take shit from anyone. You look at him, ...
Apr 3, 2020 · Toshiro Mifune cemented his reputation as an icon of masculinity right alongside Hollywood narratives of neutered Asian manhood. In 1961, Mifune provoked worldwide longing by swaggering around in Yojimbo, the same year that Mickey Rooney played the bucktoothed Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
