The collaboration between Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune began with DRUNKEN ANGEL ('48).
Kurosawa said that what grabbed him was the young Mifune's quickness, intensity and dynamism. Mifune starred in 16 of the next 17 Kurosawa films. #Mifune100
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Mifune - The Last Samurai
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There was room for so much more, I mean, they didnt even get #TatsuyaNakadai to discuss working w/ #ToshiroMifune. Ultimately, clocking it at 80mins, it's a short & disappointing look at the career & life of Japan's biggest movie star
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Brooding and sinister or tender and funny, Toshiro Mifune showed an impressive acting range. Today we honor his centennial birthday and celebrate this splendid talent with a collection of his films, all of which were collaborations with Akira Kurosawa. #LetsMovie #Mifune100
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Remembering the great Toshiro Mifune on what would have been his 100th Birthday. #ToshiroMifune #Mifune100
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Today begins our centenary celebration of Japanese superstar Toshiro Mifune, a titan of world cinema and one of the most captivating performers to ever grace the screen. #Mifune100
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"I am a person rarely impressed by actors... but in the case of Mifune I was completely overwhelmed" -Akira Kurosawa.
RASHOMON ('50) marked one of the high points in the great creative partnership between Kurosawa and Mifune who had already worked together four times. #Mifune100
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For , George Lucas discusses the impact THE HIDDEN FORTRESS ('59) had on STAR WARS ('77).
Lucas considered Mifune, who played the General Makabe Rokurōta in THE HIDDEN FORTRESS ('59), for the analogous role of Obi-Wan Kenobi. #Mifune100
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As a hardened warrior who rises savagely to power, Toshiro Mifune gives a remarkable, animalistic performance in THRONE OF BLOOD ('61) - the ghostly, fog-drenched adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" set in feudal Japan. #Mifune100
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Because I can't stop with this quote:
"I still ride horses and do a lot of laughing. But I was born this way. I can't help it. When I was young, I played old men's roles. But now I'm a little boy!"
Born in China #OTD 1920 ... Remembering #ToshirôMifune, #Mifune100 ... #BOTD.
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When someone tells us they're sleeping instead of watching THRONE OF BLOOD ('61). #Mifune100 #LetsMovie
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Hey Guys, Check out my lastest digital illustration. Justice League, Seven Samurai style flag poster. (art concept by ) #JusticeLeague #UniteTheLeague #ZackSnyders #Mifune100 #ToshiroMifune #三船敏郎 #dcuniverse #commissionsopen
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Akira Kurasawa to John Boorman, in English: “Impossible direct Mifune, only point him like a missile.” #Mifune100
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RED BEARD ('66) was the final collaboration between director Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, and is considered one of Kurosawa's most ambitious, personal, and heartfelt films. #Mifune100 #LetsMovie
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Happy Birthday, Toshiro Mifune.
Watch for our comprehensive MIFUNE 100 festival this Fall.
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Toshiro Mifune, #BOTD 100 years ago, was “the consummate actor (we never realized how good he was when he was alive).”
Donald Richie: criterion.com/current/posts/
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In Akira Kurosawa's modern version of Hamlet, "The Bad Sleep Well (1960)", Toshirô Mifune (#BOTD) stars as a young man who marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist responsible for his father's suicide in order to take vengeance & to seek justice.
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