Toshiro Mifune–star of such Kurasawa classics as ”Rashomon,” ”The Seven Samurai” and ”Yojimbo”–now ... ”One judge asked me to laugh,” he recalls of the audition, ...

Has any movie star had a harsher laugh, or more baleful stare, than Toshiro Mifune? He needed no words to have an impact onscreen. He just needed to be. Steven Spielberg says in “Mifune: The ...

Toshiro Mifune in “Samurai Rebellion,” one of the highlights of his non-Kurosawa films. Credit... Janus Films. By Mike Hale. Published Feb. 11, 2022 Updated Feb. 14, 2022.

Toshiro Mifune was a name to conjure with. A galvanic performer who was as present in his roles as anyone who ever lived, the legendary Japanese actor is the subject of “Mifune: The Last Samurai ...

It is quite possible that Toshiro Mifune was the greatest screen actor of the 20th century. Sure, there have been plenty of great actors, but when you look at the nearly 200 movies in Mifune's ...

Mifune, ironically, would eventually find his way into a major American production anyway. A few years after Star Wars debuted in 1977, ... Toshiro Mifune, was almost Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Toshiro Mifune died of multiple organ failure in 1997 at the age of 77, but the impenetrable barrier of death hasn’t stopped Capcom from digitally skinning the legendary actor’s likeness for ...

And wouldn't you know it—Toshiro Mifune played Musashi in a trilogy of movies released in the 1950s. Capcom apparently decided he was still the man for the job, even 70 years later.

Toshiro Mifune played in a long list of iconic Japanese films during his lengthy actor career. Notably, he appeared in Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Yojimbo (1961), ...

That actor is Toshiro Mifune, who appeared in many of Akira Kurosawa's most notable movies, including the likes of Seven Samurai, Rashomon, The Hidden Fortress, and Yojimbo.

Director Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 heroes-on-a-mission movie 'Seven Samurai,' which starred Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, returns to U.S. theaters this summer in a new 4K restoration.