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Toshiro Mifune Biography
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Toshiro Mifune mini-bio: Born in China to Japanese parents. With no prior acting experience, he launched his
movie career in 1946 and, two years later, worked for the first time with director
Akira Kurosawa in Drunken Angel. Mifune's raw, unbridled masculinity was ideal for
such Kurosawa films as Rashomon (1950) and The Seven Samurai (1954). But as he
matured artistically, the actor proved he was no one-trick pony, as demonstrated by
his low-key, carefully crafted performance as a tormented business executive in High
and Low (1963).
Mifune was held in high esteem by the film industry as he was by the public, winning
Venice Film Festival awards for his performances in Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1960) and
Red Beard (1965). Mifune's ability to shift from macho to subtle sensitivity was
very similar to the work of Clint Eastwood, who, ironically, played the
Mifune-character role in A Fistful of Dollars, the 1964 remake of Yojimbo.
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elburritoposted 472 days ago -
I can't get enough of the films he's in, he always brings a big smile on my face. He's tough, sexy and funny, he's a legend!!
posted 477 days ago -
Mifune is a lesson in movie-actor art.Brilliant is just a word, the true word is Toshiro Mifune!
and by the way: "This is a fan-driven page and Toshiro Mifune probably doesn't read it. Though you never know..." I don't think is true, Kurosawa, Mifune and Shimura reading us, the viewers, even in present.posted 607 days ago -
Toshiro Mifune is one of the greatest Japanese actors of all-time. His work in Yojimbo, Seven Samurai and Sanjuro was incredibly brilliant. His unbridled demeanor and disciplined acting method brought out performances that were both uncanny and simply genius.
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Its black and white, tense and edgey, its YOjimbo, outsider and you know this type of trouble will bring a wind of change... He's great here and fills the role with vigor and grit... This actor sets a standard to measure any wnabe cowboy by...
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At first, I did not like his mimics when he acted someone half crazy, I thought it was somehow artificial. (Shichinin no samurai, Rashomon)
But his success comes partly of those mimics and over time, by watching the similar characters in other movies he started to look far more natural and lively, even a stereotype.posted 945 days ago -
