Biography: Toshiro Mifune |
Born in China to Japanese parents, Toshiro Mifune hoped to become an assistant cameraman after serving in World War II, but was deflected from this goal when he won a talent contest sponsored by Toho Studios. With no prior acting experience, he... more
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Tags: Docudrama Marriage Drama Drama
Length: 98min
The struggles of a young Japanese who leaves her home to marry an stranger are chronicled in this historical drama based on true stories. Picture brides were Japanese women contracted to marry Japanese sugar-cane laborers working in Hawaii. The couple...
Cast: Norman Lloyd
Tags: Samurai Film Adventure Action Costume Adventure Swashbuckler
Length: 107min
Sho Kosugi stars (as well as produced) this picturesque and exciting swashbuckler, directed by Gordon Hessler. Kosugi plays Mayeda, a 17th-century Japanese samurai whose clan, headed by Lord Ieyasu (Toshiro Mifune), is waging a bloody battle with a...
Tags: Adventure Drama Drama
Length: 108min
Based on a best-selling novel, this drama, set amongst a remote Eskimo tribe in 1935, was -- at the time it was produced -- the most expensive Canadian motion picture ever made, with a budget of 31 million. Lou Diamond Phillips stars as Agaguk, the...
Length: 108min
For those unfamiliar with its deep meaning, the Japanese tea ceremony appears to be a long, incredibly boring, basically uneventful ritual process. In contrast, for many of its practitioners it offers the key to understanding how to live life in a...
Cast: Laurence Olivier Richard Roundtree Ben Gazzara
Tags: War Epic Drama Historical Film War
Length: 140min
This infamous Korean War drama is best known as the movie produced by Rev. Sung Myung Moon's Unification Church, though more people seem to have read stories about its troubled production or disastrous reception at the box office than to have actually...
Cast: Orson Welles
Tags: Historical Film Epic Historical Epic
Length: 549min
Based on the epic novel by James Clavell, Shogun originated as an epic five-part television miniseries, filmed on location in Japan. Richard Chamberlain stars as John Blackthorne, a 17th century British sea pilot in charge of a Dutch vessel....
Cast: Toshiro Mifune
Tags: Drama Samurai Film
Length: 117min
Japanese screen legend Toshiro Mifune bids farewell to the character he made famous in this tale of death and deception also starring Shintaro Katsu of Zatoichi fame. Hired to carry out a mysterious mission, Yojimbo (Mifune) is told to travel to a...
Tags: Family Fantasy Fairy Tales & Legends Children's Fantasy
Length: 120min
Princess From the Moon (Taketori Monogatari) is based on an ancient Japanese legend. Toshiro Mifune plays a 9th century bamboo cutter who comes across a curious glass capsule, housing a tiny baby girl who holds a crystal ball in her hand. Once...
Cast: Jerry Goldsmith John Frankenheimer
Tags: Martial Arts Action
Length: 112min
The Challenge is a classy effort directed by John Frankenheimer. Scott Glenn stars as an American boxer who finds himself in the middle of a Japanese blood feud. Toshiro Mifune and Atsuo Nakamura plays the last surviving brothers of an ancient...
Cast: Steven Spielberg Christopher Lee
Tags: Military Comedy Comedy
Length: 146min
It's December of 1941, and the people of California are in varying states of unease, ranging from a sincere desire to defend the country to virtual blind panic in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thus begin several story threads that...
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