“Mifune: The Last Samurai” is a celebration of the originality and influence of the Japanese star Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997), shown as a rare actor capable of the subtlest stoicism and the wildest ...

Stuart Galbraith IV's "The Emperor and the Wolf" bills itself as a joint biography of Akira Kurosawa and his favorite leading man, Toshiro Mifune, but it reads more like an extended filmography.

Toshirô Mifune from 'Seven Samurai' holding a lightsaber against a blue background with the words "Star Wars" Image by Zanda Rice When Seven Samurai was released in Japan on April 26, 1954, it changed ...

Only a handful of film actors loom so large they tend to dominate the pictures in which they star. Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and Marlon Brando all fit the bill. So does Toshiro Mifune, the ...

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 ...

Note: "Drunken Angel" screens April 14 at MOPA as part of Famous Firsts since it marks the first collaboration of Mifune and Kurosawa The documentary "Mifune: The Last Samurai" played at the San Diego ...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars and filmmakers and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between. This is the ...

Jeremy has more than 2000 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

FX‘s Shōgun is a series that doesn’t skimp when it comes to the finer details. The dialogue was painstakingly translated from English into Japanese, tweaked by a Japanese playwright, given another ...