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Toshiro Mifune (三船 敏郎, Mifune Toshirō, April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor and producer. The recipient of numerous awards and accolades over a lengthy career, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] he is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all time.
Toshirô Mifune. Actor: Yojimbo. Toshiro Mifune achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of his century. He was born in Tsingtao, China, to Japanese parents and grew up in Dalian. He did not set foot in Japan until he was 21.
Nov 28, 2022 · An era unto himself, Toshiro Mifune was an enduring icon of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema. Here are some of his most memorable works.
Mar 17, 2017 · “Without Toshirō Mifune, the films of Akira Kurosawa could never have come into being,” wrote Kurosawa’s longtime script supervisor and principal assistant Teruyo Nogami in her memoirs. 1 The collaboration between Kurosawa and Mifune was one of the most prolific in film history.
Dec 25, 1997 · Toshiro Mifune, the most internationally celebrated of Japanese film actors, whose work, particularly for the director Akira Kurosawa, galvanized generations of performers in the United States...
Apr 3, 2020 · Toshiro Mifune cemented his reputation as an icon of masculinity right alongside Hollywood narratives of neutered Asian manhood. In 1961, Mifune provoked worldwide longing by swaggering around in Yojimbo, the same year that Mickey Rooney played the bucktoothed Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Sep 20, 2024 · Mifune Toshiro, leading actor in the post-World War II Japanese cinema, known internationally for his work in the films of Kurosawa Akira.
Toshirô Mifune. Actor: Yojimbo. Toshiro Mifune achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of his century. He was born in Tsingtao, China, to Japanese parents and grew up in Dalian. He did not set foot in Japan until he was 21.
Aug 4, 2023 · The most iconic Japanese actor of the 20th century, ironically, didn’t set foot in Japan until he was 21. Mifune was born on April 1, 1920, in the Japanese-occupied city of Shandong (present-day Qingdao).
Mifune Toshirō (1920–1997) is considered to be one of Japan’s most iconic actors of all time. He collaborated with some of Japan’s greatest film directors such as Naruse Mikio and Mizoguchi Kenji.
