Yes, the Japanese team was one of cinema’s great collaborations. But Film Forum’s salute to Toshiro Mifune shows that he was a superb actor no matter who was in the director’s chair. By Mike Hale ...

Only a handful of film actors loom so large they tend to dominate the pictures in which they star. Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and Marlon Brando all fit the bill. So does Toshiro Mifune, the ...

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 ...

It is quite possible that Toshiro Mifune was the greatest screen actor of the 20th century. Sure, there have been plenty of great actors, but when you look at the nearly 200 movies in Mifune's ...

If one of the definitions of a movie star is that there is no one else quite like that person (Who else is like Cary Grant? Who else is like Jack Nicholson?), then already Toshiro Mifune qualifies.

FX‘s Shōgun is a series that doesn’t skimp when it comes to the finer details. The dialogue was painstakingly translated from English into Japanese, tweaked by a Japanese playwright, given another ...

When an actor appears in many films of a particular director it becomes a sort of short-hand subject to define either’s work. Sometimes it feels as if one influenced the other, or vice versa, but ...

Stuart Galbraith IV's "The Emperor and the Wolf" bills itself as a joint biography of Akira Kurosawa and his favorite leading man, Toshiro Mifune, but it reads more like an extended filmography.

Capcom has spilled more details on Onimusha: Way of the Sword following its new trailer during State of Play yesterday evening, revealing the game’s protagonist is based on the appearance of Japanese ...

The legendary leading man of Akira Kurosawa turned down offers from George Lucas, said his daughter at an event with Steve Wozniak to announce Tokyo Comic Con. By Gavin J Blair Toshiro Mifune, the ...