![]() The pair parted ways professionally in 1965. ![]() But it is Kurosawa’s greatest films that are most unimaginable without Mifune’s bravado streaking across them like lightning. Mifune is known for more than his work with Kurosawa see him in Hiroshi Inagaki’s Oscar-winning Samurai Trilogy and Masaki Kobayashi’s Samurai Rebellion. Mifune proceeded to inhabit a variety of deeply felt roles for Kurosawa, including an artist hounded by paparazzi ( Scandal) a bandit who may or not be a rapist and murderer ( Rashomon) a loose cannon ronin who reluctantly protects a village ( Seven Samurai) an elderly patriarch terrified of a second nuclear attack ( I Live in Fear) and, probably most iconically, the wily, shiftless samurai Yojimbo. The film is the first film of Inagakis Samurai Trilogy of historical adventures. Just one year later, Kurosawa gave him the lead in Drunken Angel as a consumptive gangster. Musashi Miyamoto ( Japanese:, Hepburn: Miyamoto Musashi) is a 1954 Japanese film by Hiroshi Inagaki starring Toshiro Mifune. Kurosawa first took note of the handsome actor when Mifune was twenty-seven, during an open audition at Toho Studios he was soon cast in Snow Trail (1947), a film Kurosawa wrote for director Senkichi Taniguchi. ![]() Toshiro Mifune needed only three feet.” The filmmaker certainly gave Mifune a lot of space, however: over the course of sixteen collaborations, the actor and the director created some of the most dynamic characters ever put on-screen, all marked by an intense physicality and a surprising tenderness. Akira Kurosawa once said, “The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression. ![]()
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