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Showing posts with label Toshiro Mifune. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toshiro Mifune. Show all posts
Monday, October 12, 2020

Snow Trail (Senkichi Taniguchi, 1947)

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Setsuko Wakayama and Toshiro Mifune in Snow Trail Cast : Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Akitake Kono, Yoshio Kosugi, Setsuko Wakayama, Kok...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

I Live in Fear (Akira Kurosawa, 1955)

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Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura in I Live in Fear Kiichi Nakajima : Toshiro Mifune Dr. Harada : Takashi Shimura Jiro Nakajima : Min...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Wedding Ring (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1950)

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Toshiro Mifune and Kinuyo Tanaka in Wedding Ring Noriko Kuki : Kinuyo Tanaka Takeshi Ema : Toshiro Mifune Michio Kuki : Jukichi Uno T...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)

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Toshiro Mifune in Rashomon Tajomaru : Toshiro Mifune Masako Kanazawa : Machiko Kyo Takehiro Kanazawa : Masayuki Mori Woodcutter : Tak...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

The Samurai Trilogy (Hiroshi Inagaki, 1954, 1955, 1956)

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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto Toshiro Mifune in Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple Kaoru Yachigusa in Sam...
Monday, July 2, 2018

The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, 1958)

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Katamari Fujiwara, Minoru Chiaki, Misa Uehara, and Toshiro Mifune in The Hidden Fortress Gen. Rokurota Makabe : Toshiro Mifune Tahei : ...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)

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Toshiro Mifune, Takako Irie, and Reiko Dan in Sanjuro Sanjuro : Toshiro Mifune Hanbei Muroto : Tatsuya Nakadai The Spy : Keiju Kobayas...
Saturday, November 4, 2017

The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)

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Tatsuya Nakadai in The Sword of Doom Ryunosuke Tsukue : Tatsuya Nakadai Ohama : Michiyo Aratama Hyoma Utsuki : Yuzo Kayama Omatsu : Y...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)

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Chieko Naniwa in Throne of Blood Taketoki Washizu : Toshiro Mifune Lady Asaji Washizu : Isuzu Yamada Noriyashi Odakura : Takashi Shimu...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Princess From the Moon (Kon Ichikawa, 1987)

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In eighth-century Japan, a man (Toshiro Mifune) and his wife (Ayako Wakao) are mourning the death of their 5-year-old daughter, Kaya. They...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa, 1948)

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Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura in Drunken Angel Sanada : Takashi Shimura Matsunaga : Toshiro Mifune Okada : Reizaburo Yamamoto Na...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)

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Kinuyo Tanaka in The Life of Oharu Oharu (Kinuyo Tanaka) is by turns a lover, a concubine, a courtesan, a servant, a wife, a prostitute,...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa, 1965)

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The influence of American movies on the work of Akira Kurosawa is well-known. His viewings of American Westerns, for example, helped shape...
Friday, December 2, 2016

Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi, 1967)

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Like his  Harakiri (1962), Kobayashi's Samurai Rebellion has a theatrical, almost Shakespearean quality and is sharply critical of th...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

The Lower Depths (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)

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Bokuzen Hidari in The Lower Depths Toshiro Mifune was to Akira Kurosawa as John Wayne was to John Ford: a charismatic leading man. But l...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)

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High and Low begins surprisingly, considering that Kurosawa is known as a master director of action, with a long static sequence that tak...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, 1949)

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Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, who starred in Seven Samurai , appeared together five years earlier in this noir detective story. In a...
Sunday, April 3, 2016

Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa,1954)

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It's a truism -- one that I've often echoed -- that silent movies and talkies constitute two distinct artistic media, and to judge...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Two Japanese Films

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A Page of Madness ( Kurutta ippêji ), Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926 Eiko Minami in A Page of Madness Servant : Masao Inoue Servant's ...