The 'jidaigeki', or samurai genre, is characterised by a strong anti-establishment spirit and sense of redemption, ...

Toshiro Mifune in Red Lion. Samurai Rebellion by Masaki Kobayashi (1967) “A true masterpiece representative of the dark period dramas depicting the absurdity of feudal society,” says Ichiyama.

#16: “Samurai Trilogy” (1954-56) Based on the popular novel of Japanese writer Eiji Yoshikawa, this film trilogy tells the tales of real-life master swordsman and ronin, Musashi Miyoamoto. How ...

One of the cinephile must-see documentaries of 2016 is “Mifune: The Last Samurai,” an in-depth look at legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune. He is best known for his work with ...

Toshiro Mifune! — but it goes deeper than the vast sum of its many parts. When Kurosawa decided to make what would be his first samurai film, Japan was just emerging from postwar American ...

Updated February 15, 2025, by Anthony Jeanetta. The samurai genre remains a reliable producer of quality content, from anime to live-action movie classics. This list is updated to include more of ...

Toshiro Mifune, the legendary actor and star of numerous Akira Kurosawa films including Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Rashomon, turned down the roles of Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader, worried that ...

You may notice that Musashi is also modelled after Toshiro Mifune, the legendary actor who frequently collaborated with Akira Kurosawa and starred in seminal Japanese movies Seven Samurai and ...

In a career that spanned almost 50 years and 170 films — including his many earth-shaking, samurai-themed collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa in the 1950s and '60s — Mifune reinvented ...

Ken Korman Dec 16, 2016 Dec 16, 2016Updated Nov 20, 2019 Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa on the set of Seven Samurai ...

There’s no hyperbole in describing Japanese superstar Toshiro Mifune in just such glowing terms. In a career that spanned almost 50 years and 170 films - including his many earth-shaking ...