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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).
May 26, 2024 · Named after Toshiro Mifune, the famed Japanese actor praised for his emotional portrayal of disciplined, unmatched samurai warriors, MIFUNE New York is fueled by a Michelin starred cast of top young chefs, displaying a level of refinement that would make its namesake proud. Just as Mifune himself crossed the ocean and captivated global audiences, this assemblage of culinary talent has arrived in NYC to provide a new take on Japanese cuisine.
Sep 30, 2021 · 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. As the peasant’s son masquerading as a samurai, Mifune brings wit, energy and unpredictability to a tripartite narrative structure whose blend of folksy drama and combustible violence owes much to the westerns of John Ford.
Toshiro Mifune died on December 24, 1997, at the age of 77. Although Kei Kumai's Deep River (1995) was the last film of his career, his legacy continued to be recognized, posthumously, on multiple occasions. On April 1, 2020, to commemorate 100 years since his birth, a Japanese television channel broadcast the film Ánimas Trujano.
Nov 23, 2016 · November 23, 2016 10:30 am. "Mifune: The Last Samurai". The modern movie hero owes a great debt to , the longtime Akira Kurosawa star who provided a ferocious centerpiece to everything from ...
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.
Caring for his simple-minded, UFO-obsessed brother and falling in love with the new housekeeper (Iben Hjejle from High Fidelity), a call-girl on the run, forces him to re-examine his new life. From the producer of the internationally-acclaimed film The Celebration, MIFUNE is an outrageous romantic comedy, hailed as "fresh and twistedfun!"
