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Toshiro Mifune
Toshiro Mifune
Born April 1, 1920 - Died December 24, 1997
A Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in films such as , Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. and the American Television miniseries Shogun
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Toshiro Mifune - filmography
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Shogun Warrior
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: David Essex, Sho Kosugi, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Gordon Hessler
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SHOGUN WARRIOR presents an epic set in 17th-century Japan. One clan, led by the warlord Takugawa Ieyasu (Toshiro Mifune), is locked in a bloody feud with a rival clan. Ieyasu decides that the only way to achieve victory is to send a band of soldiers to Spain to obtain flintlock muskets that will ..read more »
 
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from 179 members
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Princess From The Moon
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Yasuko Sawaguchi
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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When a mysterious light appears in the sky a poor couple investigate and find a small pod near the grave of their daughter. The pod breaks open to reveal a small baby who looks very much like their daughter. They decide to adopt her and she grows up to be a young lady of exceptional beauty who is ..read more »
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from 196 members
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Shogun
(5 discs)
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Jerry London
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Based on James Clavell's bestselling novel, the story of an English navigator whose shipwreck lands him in the middle of the political power struggle between Shogun and Emperor in feudal Japan. The complete nine hour acclaimed television mini-series.
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from 2,352 members
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1941
(1979)
Starring: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty
Director: Steven Spielberg
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An utterly wild comedy epic directed by Steven Spielberg and nominated for three Academy Awards®. Lavish effects sequences highlight this hilarious, all star extravaganza set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when fear of a Japanese Invasion threw the city into a state of ..read more »
57%
from 426 members
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Shogun's Samurai
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Etsuko Shihomi, Yoshio Harada
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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Set in feudal Japan, SHOGUN'S SAMURAI is Kinji Fukasaku's story of a brutal imperial struggle. The legendary samurai epic stars Sonny Chiba as one of the two sons of the recently deceased instructor of the Shogun. After the death of their father, the two men lock horns in a struggle for the ..read more »
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from 604 members
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Paper Tiger
(1975)
Starring: David Niven, Toshirô Mifune, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Ken Annakin
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A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
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from 11 members
Currently unavailable
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Red Sun
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Terence Young
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It is the 19th century, and two criminals, Link and Gotch, have a falling out after robbing a train. As a result, Gotch not only takes off with the money, but with a priceless golden sword owned by a Samurai passenger named Kuroda. Despite their cultural differences and initial hostility, Kuroda ..read more »
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from 91 members
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Soleil Rouge
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Terence Young
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It is the 19th century, and two criminals, Link and Gotch, have a falling out after robbing a train. As a result, Gotch not only takes off with the money, but with a priceless golden sword owned by a Samurai passenger named Kuroda. Despite their cultural differences and initial hostility, Kuroda ..read more »
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from 522 members
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Hell In The Pacific
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune
Director: John Boorman
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Director John Boorman's typical bravado is somewhat muted in this WWII parable. Set in the Pacific in 1944, the film focuses on two combatants stranded on the same barren atoll: a Japanese naval officer (Toshiro Mifune) and a U.S. marine pilot (Lee Marvin). At first the two men warily stalk each ..read more »
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from 522 members
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Grand Prix
(1966)
Starring: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand
Director: John Frankenheimer
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GRAND PRIX is John Frankenheimer's film about the nine-leg world championship of Formula 1 auto racing stars James Garner as driver Pete Aron. During the opening race in Monaco, a collision sends Pete's car flying into the Monte Carlo harbor, and British driver Scott Stoddard (Brian Bedford) into a ..read more »
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from 442 members
Not currently released
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Sword Of Doom
(1966)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
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A child is brought up by his father to be a man of the sword - for whom killing is a pleasure. This man uses his sword as the only family he recognises. Japanese dialogue.
63%
from 727 members
Not currently released
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Shintaro Katsu, Toshiro Mifune, Ayako Wakao
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
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A blind man returns to a village, of which he was once very fond. Upon his return however, he finds that things have changed considerably. There are two factions vying for power and people are getting killed... Japanese dialogue.
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from 711 members
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Red Beard
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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The last and most ambitious of Akira Kurosawa's collaborations with Toshiro Mifune, Red Beard, marked the end of one of the most remarkable actor-director relationships in the history of cinema. Toshiro Mifune plays a commanding but humane doctor in a rural clinic in late 19th-century Japan. An ..read more »
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from 2,118 members
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Samurai Assassin
(1965)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Ito Yunosuke
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
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It's 1860 and Niiro Tsurichiyo, the illegitimate son of a nobleman, dreams of becoming a samurai. But he is suspected of being a spy by the Mito Clan... Japanese dialogue with subtitles.
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from 506 members
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High And Low
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Based on King's Ransom, an 87th Precinct novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of kidnappers, who inform him that they've kidnapped his son. The crooks demand a huge ransom for the boy's return -- an ..read more »
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from 1,556 member
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Sanjuro
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, Masao Shimizu
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Set in the mid-19th century when the disintegration of a rigid social structure was turning the once wealthy into paupers, or vice-versa, this kinetic drama by acclaimed Akira Kurosawa features the hero Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune), one of many samurai whose once traditional positions were fast ..read more »
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from 4,012 members
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Yojimbo
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Seisaburo Kawazu
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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In director Akira Kurosawa's comedic YOJIMBO, a masterless samurai, Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune), wanders into a town divided by two warring clans. After displaying his formidable swordsmanship before both clans in a brawl with street thugs, Sanjuro offers his services to the highest bidder. When one ..read more »
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from 10,236 members
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The Bad Sleep Well
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyoko Kagawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old feudal misconceptions lingering in modern corruption, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. The rotten corporate world is taken on by Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune), who is looking for ..read more »
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from 822 members
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Hidden Fortress
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (original Japanese title: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin) stars Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara as a pair of misfit soldiers. Running from the enemy after a disastrous defeat, the two soldiers fall in with general Toshiro Mifune, who is in search of a huge ..read more »
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from 5,007 members
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Throne Of Blood
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy. Familiar with Orson Welles's more faithful adaptation, Kurosawa chose to place a more personal stamp on his version by translating the events and characters to historical ..read more »
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from 5,891 members
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I Live In Fear
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Eiko Miyoshi, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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When an elderly, wealthy man decides that nuclear holocaust is eminent in his country, he decides to move his family to Brazil at all costs-a place which, for some mysterious reason, he believes to be safe. His family refuses to move because they fear that the move will jeopardize their financial ..read more »
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from 641 members
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Musashi Miyamoto
(1955)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
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Young Miyamoto (Mifune) dreams of becoming a heroic warrior in the midst of battle. When civil war grips the land, however, he finds himself becoming fighting on the wrong side and is forced to become a fugitive. Later, when he meets a caring woman and a priest who puts him on the path of the ..read more »
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from 552 members
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Seven Samurai
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Keiko Tsushima, Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's epic SEVEN SAMURAI follows the plight of a defenseless farming village that lives in constant fear of marauding bandits. The farmers know that when their crops are harvested, the thugs will attack, so four men go to town in hopes of employing samurai to ..read more »
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from 38,267 members
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The Life Of Oharu
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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The story chronicles the decline through exile, concubinage and prostitution of Oharu Okui. Her sufferings and treatment are analysed until she is finally discarded like an inanimate object. Japanese dialogue with subtitles.
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from 1,358 member
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The Idiot
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Retelling of Fydor Dostoyevsky's novel, where the action is transferred from Russia to Northern Japan. An unstable war criminal acquitted of charges gets involved with two women...
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from 741 members
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Rashomon
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's highly acclaimed film, set in feudal Japan, presents an intriguing tale of violent crime in the woods, told from the perspective of four different characters--a bandit (Toshiro Mifune), a woman (Machiko Kyo), her husband (Masayuki Mori), and a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura). Only two ..read more »
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from 9,958 members
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Scandal
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Noriko Sengoku
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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When a young painter meets up by chance with a popular singer, he is unaware that the paparazzi are following them. When a magazine runs a story exposing their 'secret romance', the painter battles to restore his honour.
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from 388 members
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Stray Dog
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's "Stray Dog" is a masterful mix of film noir and police thriller set on the sweltering mean streets of Occupied Tokyo. When rookie detective Murakami (Toshiro Mifune) has his pistol stolen from his pocket while on a bus, his frantic attempts to track down the thief lead him to an ..read more »
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from 2,346 members
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Drunken Angel
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Reizaburo Yamamoto
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira Kurosawa's first auteur project. I finally discovered myself, he explained later. It was my picture: I was doing it and no one else. Takashi Shimura plays an alcoholic doctor, running a fleabitten clinic in the slums of Tokyo. ..read more »
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...of defending those unable to repay and unwilling to respect.
For many people, Toshiro Mifune's rollicking extrovert Kikuchiyo is the most engaging character; but for me, Se...
