Toshirō Mifune

Toshirō Mifune

Toshirō Mifune (April 1, 1920 - December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor who is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema. He was born in Qingdao, China, but was raised in Japan. Mifune's career spanned over 50 years, during which he collaborated extensively with renowned director Akira Kurosawa, creating some of the most iconic films in Japanese cinema. Mifune gained international recognition for his performances in Kurosawa's films, particularly in samurai films. He portrayed strong, dynamic, and often rebellious characters, bringing a raw intensity to his roles. Some of his notable collaborations with Kurosawa include "Rashomon" (1950), "Seven Samurai" (1954), "Yojimbo" (1961), and "The Hidden Fortress" (1958), which inspired George Lucas's "Star Wars." Apart from his work with Kurosawa, Mifune appeared in numerous other films, showcasing his versatility as an actor. He played roles in various genres, including dramas, comedies, and war films. Some of his other notable films include "The Throne of Blood" (1957), "High and Low" (1963), and "Red Beard" (1965). Mifune's charismatic presence, powerful performances, and ability to convey complex emotions made him an iconic figure in Japanese cinema. He received international recognition and awards for his contributions to the film industry, including several honors at the Venice Film Festival and a lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Known For: Acting

Born: Qingdao, China, 1920-04-01

Died: 1997-12-24

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	Snow Trail	Eijima	70
2	1947	These Foolish Times	Genzaburo Onō, Gang Boss	0
3	1948	Drunken Angel	Matsunaga	76
4	1949	The Quiet Duel	Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki	73
5	1949	Jakoman and Tetsu	Tetsu	0
6	1949	Stray Dog	Det. Murakami	75
7	1950	Escape from Prison	Shinkichi	0
8	1950	Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka	Teisaku Nagasawa	65
9	1950	Scandal	Ichirô Aoye	69
10	1950	Wedding Ring	Takeshi Ema	66
11	1950	Rashomon	Tajômaru	81
12	1951	Beyond Love and Hate	Gorō Sakata	0
13	1951	Elegy	Prosecutor Daisuke Toki	0
14	1951	The Idiot	Denkichi Akama	70
15	1951	Pirates	Tora	0
16	1951	Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre	Kenji Kawakami	0
17	1951	Sasaki Kojiro	Miyamoto Musashi	50
18	1951	The Life of a Horse Trader	Yonetaro Katayama	68
19	1951	Who Knows a Woman's Heart	Mizuno	0
20	1952	Vendetta of a Samurai	Mataemon Araki	68
21	1952	Foghorn	Chiyokichi	0
22	1952	The Life of Oharu	Katsunosuke	78
23	1952	Kin no tamago: Golden Girl		0
24	1952	Sword for Hire	Sasa Hayatenosuke	70
25	1952	Tokyo Sweetheart	Kurokawa	78
26	1952	Swift Current	Shunsuke Kosugi	0
27	1952	The Man Who Came to Port	Gorō Niinuma	100
28	1953	My Wonderful Yellow Car	Matsumura	60
29	1953	The Last Embrace	Shinkichi / Hayakawa	0
30	1953	Sunflower Girl	Ippei Hitachi	0
31	1953	The Eagle of the Pacific	1st Lieutenant Tomonaga	76
32	1954	Seven Samurai	Kikuchiyo	85
33	1954	Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto	Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo	72
34	1954	The Surf	Skipper of the Utashima-maru	0
35	1954	The Black Fury	Eiichi Tsuda	0
36	1955	A Man Among Men	"Buick" Maki	0
37	1955	All is Well	Daikichi Risshun	0
38	1955	All is Well 2	Daikichi Risshun	0
39	1955	No Time for Tears	Mitsuo Yano	0
40	1955	Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple	Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo	72
41	1955	I Live in Fear	Kiichi Nakajima	73
42	1956	Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island	Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo	72
43	1956	Rainy Night Duel	Masahiko Koseki	0
44	1956	The Underworld	Chief Inspector Kumada	0
45	1956	Settlement of Love	Shuntarō Ōhira	0
46	1956	A Wife's Heart	Kenkichi	68
47	1956	Scoundrel	Kanji	0
48	1956	Rebels on the High Sea	Matsuo Tokuzō	0
49	1957	Throne of Blood	Taketoki Washizu	79
50	1957	A Man in the Storm	Saburō Watari	0
51	1957	Good Luck to These Two	Toshio Maruyama	60
52	1957	Yagyu Secret Scrolls	Tasaburō Kasumi	70
53	1957	A Dangerous Hero	Kawada	0
54	1957	The Lower Depths	Sutekichi the Thief	71
55	1957	Down Town	Yoshio Tsuruishi	0
56	1958	Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II	Tasaburo	53
57	1958	A Holiday in Tokyo	Tenkai's nephew Jirō	0
58	1958	The Rickshaw Man	Matsugorō Tomishima	72
59	1958	Yaji and Kita on the Road	Toshinoshin Taya	0
60	1958	All About Marriage	Acting teacher	0
61	1958	Theater of Life		0
62	1958	The Hidden Fortress	General Rokurota Makabe	80
63	1959	The Big Boss	Kashimura	63
64	1959	Samurai Saga	Heihachiro Komaki	67
65	1959	Saga of the Vagabonds	Rokuro Kai	63
66	1959	Desperado Outpost	Battalion Commander	61
67	1959	The Three Treasures	Prince Yamato Takeru	54
68	1960	The Last Gunfight	Detective Saburo Fujioka	61
69	1960	The Gambling Samurai	Kunisada Chuji	63
70	1960	The Storm of the Pacific	Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi	56
71	1960	Man Against Man	Kaji	0
72	1960	The Bad Sleep Well	Kôichi Nishi	77
73	1960	The Masterless 47	Kazuo Momoi	0
74	1961	Daredevil in the Castle	Mohei	74
75	1961	The Masterless 47 – Part II		0
76	1961	Yojimbo	Sanjuro Kuwabatake / The Samurai	81
77	1961	The Youth and His Amulet	Fudo-Myo (Immovable Bright King)	0
78	1961	The Important Man	Ánimas Trujano	79
79	1962	Sanjuro	Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin	80
80	1962	Home-Brewed Tatsu	Tatsu	0
81	1962	Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong	Zhang Zhizhang	58
82	1962	Chûshingura	Genba Tawaraboshi	73
83	1963	Attack Squadron	Lt. Colonel Senda	60
84	1963	High and Low	Kingo Gondo	83
85	1963	Legacy of the 500,000	Takeichi Matsuo	71
86	1963	Samurai Pirate	Sukezaemon Naya, aka 'Luzon' [Sinbad, in US version]	55
87	1964	Whirlwind	Lord Akashi	68
88	1965	Samurai Assassin	Tsuruchiyo Niiro	74
89	1965	Red Beard	Dr. Kyojio Niide ("Red Beard")	81
90	1965	Sanshiro Sugata	Shogoro Yano	70
91	1965	The Retreat from Kiska	Omura	83
92	1965	Fort Graveyard	Sergeant Kosugi	67
93	1966	The Sword of Doom	Toranosuke Shimada	77
94	1966	Adventure in Kigan Castle	Osami	57
95	1966	The Mad Atlantic	Heihachirô Murakami	0
96	1966	Rise Against the Sword	Abare Gōemon	65
97	1966	Grand Prix	Izō Yamura	72
98	1966	Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions	Self	0
99	1967	Samurai Rebellion	Isaburo Sasahara	82
100	1967	Japan's Longest Day	War Minister General Korechika Anami	71
101	1968	The Sands of Kurobe	Kitagawa	62
102	1968	Admiral Yamamoto	Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto	83
103	1968	The Day the Sun Rose	Kumaza	70
104	1968	Hell in the Pacific	Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda	69
105	1969	Samurai Banners	Kansuke Yamamoto	76
106	1969	Safari 5000	Yūichirō Takase	73
107	1969	Battle of the Japan Sea	Admiral Heihachiro Togo	60
108	1969	Red Lion	Gonzo	64
109	1969	Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor	Isami Kondo	68
110	1970	Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo	Yojimbo/Sasa	68
111	1970	The Ambitious	Shojiro Goto	72
112	1970	Incident at Blood Pass	Yojimbo	68
113	1970	The Walking Major	Kinugasa Tadao	20
114	1970	The Militarists	Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto	80
115	1971	Red Sun	Kuroda Jubei	69
116	1975	Paper Tiger	Ambassador Kagoyama	57
117	1976	Midway	Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto	66
118	1977	Proof of the Man	Yohei Kori	74
119	1977	Japanese Godfather: Ambition	Kosuke Oishi	88
120	1978	Shogun's Samurai	Yoshinao Tokugawa	70
121	1978	Shag	Captain Takeo Murata	70
122	1978	Love and Faith	Taiko Hideyoshi	63
123	1978	Japanese Godfather: Conclusion	Kosuke Oishi	70
124	1978	The Fall of Ako Castle	Tsuchiya Michinao	66
125	1978	Lord Mito	Sakuzaemon Okumura	95
126	1979	Winter Kills	Keith	59
127	1979	The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi	Kindaichi of 11th Generation in "The Woman in the Eye"	64
128	1979	Onmitsu Doshin: The Edo Secret Police	Sadanobu Matsudaira	50
129	1979	1941	Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura	58
130	1980	Port Arthur	Emperor Meiji	73
131	1980	Shogun	Lord Yoshi Toranaga	78
132	1981	Inchon	Saito-San	34
133	1981	Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 1	Tamon Umei	35
134	1981	The Bushido Blade	Shogun's Commander	54
135	1981	Lowly Ronin	Sanjuro Hinoki	0
136	1982	Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2	Tamon Umei	0
137	1982	The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn		0
138	1982	The Challenge	Toru Yoshida	60
139	1982	Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood	Sanjuro Hinoki	0
140	1982	Domineering	Masao Tadokoro	50
141	1983	Theater Of Life	Hyōtarō Aonari	0
142	1983	Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell	Sanjuro Hinoki	0
143	1983	Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl	Sûrônin Rakuyôjûrô	0
144	1983	Battle Anthem	Admiral Heihachiro Togo	70
145	1983	Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass	Sûrônin Hinoki Sajûrô	0
146	1983	The Women of Osaka Castle	Tokugawa Ieyasu	0
147	1983	Secret of the Forbidden Valley		0
148	1984	Okita Soji: Swordsman of Fire	Shūsai Kondō	0
149	1984	The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel	Fisherman	60
150	1985	No More God, No More Love	Kōzō Kanzaki	60
151	1986	The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai	Kyūbei Matsufuji	70
152	1987	The Shatterer	Murai	0
153	1987	Tora-san Goes North	Junkichi Ueno	87
154	1987	The Retired Samurai	Hikozaemon Ōkubo	0
155	1987	Princess from the Moon	Taketori-no-Miyatsuko	64
156	1989	The Demon Comes in Spring	Kukkune no jî	0
157	1989	Death of a Tea Master	Rikyu Sen-no	54
158	1989	cf Girl	Shūichirō Hase	70
159	1990	Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode	Nagao Tamekage	100
160	1991	Journey of Honor	Ieyasu Tokugawa	49
161	1991	Strawberry Road	Taoka	100
162	1992	Shadow of the Wolf	Kroomak	58
163	1995	Deep River	Tsukada	72
164	1995	Picture Bride	The Benshi	63
165	1996	The Making of '1941'	Self (archive footage)	66
166	1998	Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman	Self (archive footage)	0
167	2000	Kurosawa	Self (archive footage)	67
168	2002	Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'	Self	80
169	2016	Mifune: The Last Samurai	Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)	71
170	2020	Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity	Self (archive footage)	78

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	Epic Chushingura	Oishi Kuranosuke	0
2	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
3	1972	Ronin of the Wastelands	Kujuro Toge	0
4	1976	Ronin in a Lawless Town	Mr. Danna	0
5	1978	Falcons of Edo	Kanbei Uchiyama	0
6	1979	The 47 Ronins of Ako	Tachibana Sakon	0
7	1980	Shōgun	Lord Yoshi Toranaga	77
8	1981	Sekigahara	Sakon Shima	70
9	1981	Tuesday Suspense Theater		0
10	1984	Burning Mountain River	Otsuichi Amo	0

Toshirō Mifune

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