Mifune

[mi-foo-nee, mee-foo-ne]

noun

1. Toshiro 1920–97, Japanese film actor, born in China.

Example Sentences

The actors in “Rashomon” were all at the peak of their powers—Machiko Kyo as the noblewoman, by turns pleading and vicious; Takashi Shimura, whose woodcutter comes to accept his own cowardice; Masayuki Mori as the noble samurai, so fearful of losing face in the eyes of his wife; and most charismatic of all, Mifune, scratching himself and slapping away mosquitoes as his bandit insolently declares his desire for the lady on the pale horse.

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He’s a weasel with a sword, the drunken-samurai trope like the tragic buffoon Kikuchiyo, portrayed by the great Toshiro Mifune in the Akira Kurosawa classic “Seven Samurai.”

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“Honestly, all of it is important, not just what Mifune did but De Niro, Method — anything from the current to the past,” Tadanobu says about his approach to acting.

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Toshiro Mifune was nominated for the 1980 NBC miniseries.

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Cinephiles already revered director Akira Kurosawa, who featured “Shōgun” co-star Toshiro Mifune in his famous Edo-era set jidaigeki films including "Rashomon," "Seven Samurai" and "Yojimbo."

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