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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.
Although Mifune was cast in his first films as a gangster, Kurosawa was nevertheless always eager to broaden his acting horizons and offered him the role of a doctor in The Quiet Duel and in their last collaboration, Red Beard.
Sep 20, 2024 · In 1946 Mifune had a small part in Shin baka jidai (1947; “These Foolish Times”), and in 1947 he achieved critical recognition and box-office success as the gangster in Kurosawa’s Yoidore tenshi (1948; Drunken Angel).
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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.
Aug 4, 2023 · In 1939, the then 19-year-old was drafted into the Japanese Imperial Army. Initially enthusiastic, he was often beaten and soon became disenchanted. “My father always had that forceful voice, and his superiors didn’t like it,” said Mifune’s son Shiro in the documentary Mifune: The Last Samurai.
Nov 16, 2016 · Nov 16, 2016. Toshiro Mifune was the first Japanese — or, for that matter, Asian — actor to become an international action star. Born in 1920, he became one of the few Japanese known to...
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Dec 27, 1997 · Mifune, as Tajamuro, the rapist and murderer, is first seen in what was to become his trademark look: his hair unkempt, his face snarled, with a half-grown beard, his clothes dirty and flapping...
