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Toshiro Mifune |
Actor/Producer/Director |
Date of birth:
April 1st, 1920
Tsingtao, China |
Date of death:
December 24th,
1997 Mitaka
city, Tokyo, Japan |
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Biography |
Toho's, Japan's,
the World's best actor... All could easily
be said for Toshiro Mifune, who has the power
to make any film that he stars in worth watching.
However, when paired up with Akira
Kurosawa the world was exposed to some
of the greatest cinema to date. Toshiro Mifune
started out his career at Toho with the film
These Foolish Times in 1947. The very
next year Mifune was introduced to Kurosawa,
who cast Mifune in Drunken
Angel (1948). Mifune and Kurosawa
would go on to do many films together, and
to this day it's hard not to think of Mifune
without thinking of Kurosawa, and vice-a-versa.
Mifune would eventually start his own production
company in 1963, which would do several collaboratory
efforts with Toho. During his lifetime, Mifune
has won two awards for Best Actor at the Venice
Film Festival for his roles in Yojimbo
(1961) and Red
Beard (1965). However, while working
on Red
Beard in 1965, personal issues between
Kurosawa and Mifune arose and the two spilt
there separate ways, never to make another
movie together. Before his death, though,
Mifune did say this of Kurosawa: "I am
proud of nothing I have done other than with
him." |
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Acting Toho Filmography
These Foolish Times (1947) - Gang Boss
These Foolish Times II (1947) - Gang Boss
Snow Trail
(1947) - Eijima
Drunken
Angel (1948) - Matsunaga
Jakoman and Tetsu (1949) - Tetsu
Stray Dog
(1949) - Murakami
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka (1950)
Elegy (1951)
The Idiot (1951) - Denkichi Akama
Pirates (1951)
Conclusion of Kojiro Sasaki: Duel on Ganryu
Island (1951) - Musashi Miyamoto
Who
Knows a Woman's Heart? (1951)
Beyond Love and Hate (1951)
Vendetta of a Samurai (1952) - Mataemon
Araki
Foghorn (1952) - Chiyokichi
Sword
for Hire (1952) - Sasa Hayatenosuke
Golden Girl (1952)
Jewels in Our Hearts (1952)
Swift Current (1952)
The
Man Who Came to Port (1952)
Life
of Oharu (1952) - Katsunosuke
My Wonderful Yellow Car (1953) - Matsumura
Last Embrace (1953) - Shinkichi
Love in a Teacup (1953) - Ippei Hitachi
The
Eagle of the Pacific (1953) - Tomonaga,
1st Lieutenant
Seven
Samurai (1954) - Kikuchiyo
Samurai
I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954) - Musashi
Miyamoto
The Sound of Waves (1954) - Skipper of
the Utashima-maru
Smuggling Ship (1954) - Eiichi Tsuda
I Live
in Fear (1955) - Kiichi Nakajima
All Is Well (1955)
All Is Well Part 2 (1955)
No Time for Tears (1955) - Yano
Samurai
II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) - Musashi
Miyamoto
A Man Among Men (1955) - Maki
Scoundrel (1956)
Wife's Heart (1956)
Samurai
III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) - Musashi
Miyamoto
Settlement of Love (1956)
Rainy Night Duel (1956)
The Underworld (1956)
Rebels on the
High Sea (1956) - Tokuzo Matsuo
Throne
of Blood (1957) - Taketori Washizu
Good Luck to These Two (1957)
The Lower
Depths (1957)
Yagyu
Confidential (1957) - Tasaburo
Downtown (1957)
A Dangerous Hero (1957)
Man in the Storm (1957) - Saburo Watari
The
Hidden Fortress (1958) - Rokurota Makabe
Yaji and Kita On the Road (1958)
Ninjitsu
(1958) - Tasaburo
A Holiday in Tokyo (1958) - Tenkai's Nephew
Muhomatsu, the Rickshaw Man (1958) - Matsugoro
Theater
of Life: Youth Volume (1958)
The Big Boss
(1959) - Kashimura
Samurai
Saga (1959) - Heihachiro Komaki
The
Three Treasures (1959) - Yamato Takeru,
Prince/Susano, Prince
Saga of the Vagabonds (1959) - Rokuro Kai
Desperado
Outpost (1959) - Kodama, Battalion
Commander
The
Bad Sleep Well (1960)
The
Storm of the Pacific (1960) - Yamaguchi,
Admiral
The Gambling Samurai (1960) - Chuji
Salary Man Chushingura (1960) - Kazuo Momoi
Man Against Man (1960) - Kaji
The Last Gunfight (1960) - Saburo Fujioka,
Detective
Daredevil
in the Castle (1961) - Mohei
Yojimbo
(1961) - Sanjuro
The Youth and His Amulet (1961) - Fudo-myoh, the Immovable King
The Storm of the Pacific (1961) - Yamaguchi,
Admiral
Salary Man Chushingura Part 2 (1961) - Kazuo
Momoi
Sanjuro
(1962) - Sanjuro
Tatsu (1962) - Tatsu
Chushingura
(1962) - Genba Tawaraboshi
Attack Squadron (1963) - Senda, Lieutenant
Colonel
High
and Low (1963) - Kingo Gondo
Samurai
Pirate (1963) - Sukezaemon
The
Legacy of the 500,000 (1963) - Takeichi
Matsuo
Whirlwind
(1964) - Akashi, Lord
Red Beard
(1965) - "Red Beard"
Fort
Graveyard (1965) - Kosugi, Sergeant
The
Retreat From Kiska (1965) - Omura
Samurai
Assassin (1965) - Tsuruchiyo Niino
Judo Saga (1965) - Shogoro Yano
The
Adventure of Taklamkan (1966) - Osumi
Rise
Against the Sword (1966) - Abare Goemon
Sword
of Doom (1966) - Toranosuke Shimada,
Fencing Teacher
The Mad
Atlantic (1966) - Heihachiro Murakami
Samurai
Rebellion (1967) - Isaburo Sasahara
Japan's
Longest Day (1967) - Anami, War
Minister
Admiral
Yamamoto (1968) - Isoroku Yamamoto,
Grand Admiral
Festival of Gion (1968) - Kumaza
Tunnel to the Sun (1968) - Kitagawa
Red Lion
(1969) - Gonzo
Battle
of the Japan Sea (1969) - Togo,
Admiral
Band
of Assassins (1969) - Isami Kondo
Samurai
Banners (1969) - Kansuke Yamamoto
The Militarists
(1970) - Isoroku Yamamoto, Grand
Admiral
Zatoichi
Meets Yojimbo (1970) - Daisaku Sasa,
Yojimbo
Incident
at Blood Pass (1970) - Yojimbo
The
Ambitious (1970) - Shojiro Goto
Love
and Faith (1978) - Taiko Hideyoshi
Bye-Bye
Jupiter (1983) - Musashi Miyamoto
(stock footage)
Princess
from the Moon (1987) - Taketori Miyatsuko
Producer Toho Film Credits
The
Legacy of the 500,000 (1963)
Fort
Graveyard (1965)
Samurai
Assassin (1965)
The
Adventure of Taklamkan (1966)
The Mad
Atlantic (1966)
Samurai
Rebellion (1967)
Festival of Gion (1968)
Tunnel to the Sun (1968)
Samurai
Banners (1969)
Band
of Assassins (1969)
Red Lion
(1969)
Incident
at Blood Pass (1970) - Yojimbo
Director Toho Film Credits
The
Legacy of the 500,000 (1963) |
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