Toshiro Mifune was a name to conjure with. A galvanic performer who was as present in his roles as anyone who ever lived, the legendary Japanese actor is the subject of “Mifune: The Last Samurai,” a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Mifune: The Last Samurai,” a dutiful and diverting but rather bare-bones documentary portrait, opens with a series of clips and ...

Beginning in the late 1940s and through the ’50s and ’60s, as we learn in the documentary “Mifune: The Last Samurai,” the actor Toshiro Mifune and writer-director Akira Kurosawa had one of the most ...

The image of Toshiro Mifune wielding a samurai sword, eyes glaring at his foe, is among the first images to come to most American filmgoers’s minds when they think about Japanese cinema. And ...

“Mifune: The Last Samurai” is a celebration of the originality and influence of the Japanese star Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997), shown as a rare actor capable of the subtlest stoicism and the wildest ...

Toshiro Mifune should be a household name. The rarest of talents who rose from extremely harsh conditions to achieve fame and success, his story deserves to be known. Thankfully, director Steven ...

"A lot of people try to imitate Mifune, but nobody can." Stop and watch this now! The first official trailer has debuted online for a fantastic documentary called Mifune: The Last Samurai, profiling ...

Toshiro Mifune was a name to conjure with. A galvanic performer who was as present in his roles as anyone who ever lived, the legendary Japanese actor is the subject of “Mifune: The Last Samurai,” a ...

A look at the life and art of Toshiro Mifune captures a Japanese movie star's revolutionary ferocity but not the mystery behind it. “Mifune: The Last Samurai,” a dutiful and diverting but rather ...

What if there was a single movie star from the golden age of world cinema who combined the cool of Humphrey Bogart, the charisma of Paul Newman and the acting chops of Marlon Brando? There’s no ...