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Toshiro Mifune (三船 敏郎, Mifune Toshirō, April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor and producer. A winner of numerous awards and accolades over a lengthy career, [1] [2] Mifune is best known for starring in Akira Kurosawa 's critically acclaimed jidaigeki films such as Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of ...
Toshirô Mifune. Actor: Yojimbo. Toshiro Mifune achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of his century. He was born in Tsingtao, China, to Japanese parents and grew up in Dalian. He did not set foot in Japan until he was 21.
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 24, 2023 · Toshiro Mifune was one of the most prolific and iconic Japanese film actors of all time. His best movies include Throne of Blood and Seven Samurai.
Aug 4, 2023 · In this month's Spotlight article, we're looking back at the life of Toshiro Mifune, the man widely regarded as Japan's greatest ever actor.
Dec 25, 1997 · Toshiro Mifune, the most internationally celebrated of Japanese film actors, whose work, particularly for the director Akira Kurosawa, galvanized generations of performers in the United...
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.
Toshiro Mifune achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of his century. He was born in Tsingtao, China, to Japanese parents and grew up in Dalian. He did not set foot in Japan until he was 21.
Nov 2, 2015 · This year the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced the selection of Japanese film legend Mifune Toshirō (1920–1997) to receive a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Almost two decades after...
Feb 11, 2022 · Toshiro Mifune in “Samurai Rebellion,” one of the highlights of his non-Kurosawa films. Janus Films. By Mike Hale. Published Feb. 11, 2022 Updated Feb. 14, 2022. Toshiro Mifune once wrote...
