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  • Seven Samurai
  • Seven Samurai review by A customer from Essex
    Rated - 4 stars The Shogun of the big screen 20 September 2003
    ...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...  
  • Yojimbo
  • Yojimbo review by A customer from Northen Ireland
    Rated - 5 stars Fistfulls 6 March 2004
    ...Another classic from Kurasawa and Toshiro Mifune. Quite lighthearted in it's own way. Remade by Sergio Leone as Fistful of Dollars, so if it was good enough for him......  
  • Hell In The Pacific
  • Hell In The Pacific review by William Johnson from Leamington
    Rated - 3 stars Good try 14 April 2005
    ... uninhabited Pacific island. Well it would have been uninhabited if a Japanese (Toshiro Mifune) had not got there first. The bulk of the movie is about the fight the two have...  

Toshiro Mifune - filmography


  • Shogun Warrior on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Christopher Lee,  David Essex,  Sho Kosugi
    Director: Gordon Hessler
    Certificate: PG
    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 ...
    Rate this: 2.5 49% from 131 members
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  • Princess From The Moon on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Ayako Wakao,  Yasuko Sawaguchi
    Director: Kon Ichikawa
    Certificate: PG
    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 ...
    Rate this: 2.5 46% from 150 members
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  • Shogun (5 discs) on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Richard Chamberlain,  Toshiro Mifune
    Director: Jerry London
    Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 75% from 313 members
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  • Soleil Rouge on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Alain Delon,  Toshiro Mifune
    Director: Terence Young
    Certificate: 15
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 58% from 365 members
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  • Hell In The Pacific (1969)
    Starring: Lee Marvin,  Toshiro Mifune
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: PG
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 66% from 236 members
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  • Sword Of Doom on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Tatsuya Nakadai
    Director: Kihachi Okamoto
    Certificate: 12
    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.
    Rate this: 3.0 67% from 130 members
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  • Grand Prix on DVD (1966)
    Starring: James Garner,  Eva Marie Saint,  Yves Montand
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: PG
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 73% from 144 members
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  • Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Shintaro Katsu,  Toshiro Mifune,  Ayako Wakao
    Director: Kihachi Okamoto
    Certificate: 12
    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.
    Rate this: 3.0 61% from 555 members
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  • Red Beard on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Yuzo Kayama
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: 15
    The final collaboration between Kurosawa and Mifune, RED BEARD tells the story of a doctor in a rural clinic in late-19th century Japan. He teaches his new intern the meaning of responsibilty through a master-pupil relationship, a constantly recurring theme in Kurosawa's work.
    Rate this: 3.5 76% from 410 members
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  • Samurai Assassin on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Ito Yunosuke
    Director: Kihachi Okamoto
    Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 3.0 62% from 451 members
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  • High And Low on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Toshiro Mifune,  Kyoko Kagawa
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: 12
    Based on KING'S RANSOM, a crime novel by Ed McBain, HIGH AND LOW stars Toshiro Mifune as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy, hardworking businessman. As Gondo plans a coup that will secure his position as the head of his Yokohama shoe company, he is contacted by a criminal who informs him that he's kidnapped ...
    Rate this: 3.5 75% from 315 members
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  • Sanjuro on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Toshiro Mifune,  Masao Shimizu
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: 12
    Due to the huge success of Kurosawa's 1961 epic YOJIMBO, he teamed up with Mifune a year later to make comedy of manners SANJURO. The plot concerns Sanjuro, a man fighting corruption in local government. The director parodies perfectly the conventions of Japanese period action movies and the final ...
    Rate this: 3.5 78% from 641 members
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  • Yojimbo on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Eijiro Tono,  Seisaburo Kawazu
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 77% from 1,598 members
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  • Hidden Fortress on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Misa Uehara,  Minoru Chiaki
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    During a civil war in 16th-century feudal Japan, two cowardly farmers (Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara) stumble upon Makabe (Toshiro Mifune), a fierce army general. Escaping from hostile territory, General Makabe embarks on a mission to rescue both Yukihime (Misa Uehara), the willfull princess ...
    Rate this: 3.5 75% from 873 members
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  • Throne Of Blood on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Isuzu Yamada,  Minoru Chiaki
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    Akira Kurosawa's stunning reconception of Shakespeare's MACBETH is a dark samurai drama, full of powerful and haunting images. Set in feudal Japan, the film follows the path of an ambitious warlord (Toshiro Mifune) who fulfills a prophecy stating that he will become emperor. However, he achieves ...
    Rate this: 3.5 76% from 1,076 members
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  • I Live In Fear on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Eiko Miyoshi,  Minoru Chiaki
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    A man who lives in Tokyo, who attempts to move his family to Brazil because of concerns about a nuclear holocaust. But his family think differently and try and get him committed. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.
    Rate this: 3.0 68% from 122 members
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  • Musashi Miyamoto (1955)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Eijiro Tono
    Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
    Certificate: PG
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 63% from 430 members
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  • Seven Samurai on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Takashi Shimura,  Toshiro Mifune,  Yoshio Inaba
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 8,290 members
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  • The Life Of Oharu on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka,  Toshiro Mifune
    Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
    Certificate: PG
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 75% from 223 members
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  • Rashomon on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Masayuki Mori,  Machiko Kyo
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: 12
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 75% from 1,541 members
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  • Scandal on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Shirley Yamaguchi,  Noriko Sengoku
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 65% from 241 members
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  • Stray Dog on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Takashi Shimura,  Keiko Awaji
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    The setting for this Akira Kurosawa film noir is Tokyo in the late 1940s, its streets blasted by war and its economy in collapse. When Murakami, a young detective (Toshiro Mifune, in one of his earliest roles), loses his gun to a thief, he must descend into a hell teeming with shady characters to ...
    Rate this: 3.5 73% from 442 members
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  • The Idiot on DVD
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Setsuko Hara,  Masayuki Mori
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    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...
    Rate this: 3.5 65% from 241 members
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Toshiro Mifune facts

5 most recent films


Shadow of the Wolf - 2.5 stars
Shogun Warrior - 2.5 stars
Princess From The Moon - 2.5 stars
Shogun - 3.5 stars
1941 - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films


Red Beard - 3.5 stars
Shogun - 3.5 stars
Sanjuro - 3.5 stars