Though the 20-years-in-the-making Onimusha: Way of the Sword actually looks pretty great, Capcom has made one head-scratching decision - basing the likeness of new protagonist Musashi Miyamoto on ...

Instead, players will assume control of Miyamoto Mushashi, a samurai warrior whose likeness is based on the late actor Toshiro Mifune. Onimusha: Way of the Sword will hit PS5, Xbox Series X S, and ...

This is interesting, but the more compelling wrinkle is that his face is modeled on the legendary (but historically real) actor Toshiro Mifune, who passed away in 1997.

Japan, 1961, 110 min “Sanjuro “ – New 4K Restoration Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed Sanjuro.

We already knew that Onimusha: Way of the Sword would feature Musashi Miyamoto, the legendary historical swordsman, as the protagonist, and would be using the face of Toshiro Mifune, star of ...

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Now chalk up another one with Spike Lee ‘s new take on Kurosawa’s 1963 drama High and Low, in which Toshiro Mifune played a shoemaker executive who is torn between paying the ransom to his ...

Toshiro Mifune in The Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa dir, Toho Films, 1954. Photo the author. Preface: The big screen When I was young, movies were big.

Spike Lee’s latest film 'Highest 2 Lowest' reunites him with Denzel Washington and introduces a star-studded cast.

Lucas originally wanted legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune to play Obi-Wan Kenobi. Mifune turned it down, worried it would cheapen the image of samurai culture.

For those who are familiar with Akira Kurosawa, the famed director made 16 movies with Toshiro Mifune before they stopped working together entirely. But, Kurosawa made several movies without Mifune.

“In Kurosawa’s film, Toshiro Mifune is a shoemaker,” said Lee. “In our film, Denzel Washington is a music mogul with his own label and his reputation as the best ears in the business.