Toshiro Mifune

Apr30

Broken foot + endless hours of staying at home = classic Japanese movie-watching.

Husband and I didn’t start watching samurai/Kurosawa movies until we were married {and I’m half Japanese! why did it take us so long?}, and now we cannot get enough of them. Although not hipster aficionados {yet}, we have seen at least 15 Kurosawa movies, and at least 10 of them feature Toshiro Mifune — by far the coolest tough-guy actor in all Japanese filmdom. He’s like the Steve McQueen of the East; he’s just that awesome. {Some faves: Yojimbo — A Fist Full of Dollars was based of this; Rashomon; Seven Samurai…}

toshiro_mifune_drunkenangel{Mifune in Drunken Angel}

toshiro_mifune_dapper{Very dapper Mifune! Love this look, especially his grimace}

{Images via toshiromifune.org}

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  1. KFM Says:

    I like the below picture of Mifune! Never seen it before. He was an incredible actor, my favorite. Him and Kurosawa just did amazing things together. Mifune as a drunk, a wild man, a doctor, an _old_ man, he could play anything with passion, and it gives me goosebumps every time I watch him as Kikuchiyo in Seven Samurai. It was a shame when they stopped working together after Akahige.

    November 30th, 2009 at 8:39 am

  2. Vintage Mint Says:

    Yes, very unfortunate; Kurasawa + Mifune were great together. At first, I thought Mifune was insanely over-the-top, but soon loved every scene/film he was in!

    December 8th, 2009 at 1:06 am

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