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Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese actor and producer. The recipient of numerous awards and accolades over a lengthy career, he is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all time. Noted for his commanding screen presence in the Japanese film industry, he typically played hypermasculine or heroic characters.
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entertainment · Japanese actor (1920–1997) · actor · film producer · film actor · film director · television actor · director · also Toshirō Mifune, Toshiro Mifune, Mifune
Born 1 April 1920 · Died 24 December 1997 · Q37001
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“An actor is not a puppet with strings pulled by the director. He is a human being with seeds of all emotions, desires, and needs within himself. I attempt to find the very center of this humanity and explore and experiment.”
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“Generally speaking, most East–West stories have been a series of cliches. I, for one, have no desire to retell Madame Butterfly.”
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“I have never as an actor done anything that I am proud of other than with him”
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By The Criterion Collection in commemoration of the centenary of Mifune's birth, Moeko Fujii wrote,
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IndieWire: Toshiro Mifune: The First Non-White Movie Hero — Interview
His name was inscribed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Steven Okazaki released Mifune: The Last Samurai, a documentary chronicling Mifune's life and career
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Was inducted into the Martial Arts History Museum Hall of Fame
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Died 1997-12-24.
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At the funeral of their friend Ishirō Honda, but never collaborated again
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actor (1988).
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Won Medal with Purple Ribbon (1986).
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And the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1993
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Mifune experienced popularity with mainstream American audiences through his role as Lord Toranaga in the television miniseries Shogun, which Kurosawa criticised for its historical inaccuracy
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Mifune joined the ensemble cast of the Steven Spielberg war comedy 1941 as the commander of a lost Imperial Japanese Navy submarine searching for Hollywood shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack
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Was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival
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Was a member of the jury at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor for Red Beard (1966).
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Won Volpi Cup for Best Actor for Red Beard (1965).
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor for Yojimbo (1962).
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Established Mifune Productions, achieving success with large-scale works including The Sands of Kurobe (1968) and Samurai Banners (1969)
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Won Volpi Cup for Best Actor for Yojimbo (1961).
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Mifune provoked worldwide longing by swaggering around in Yojimbo, the same year that Mickey Rooney played the bucktoothed Mr
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Joe Franklin would tell Hayakawa in his talk show, "There were two things we were sure of in the silent movie era; the Indians never got the best of it, and Sessue Hayakawa never got the girl
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor (1952).
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A large number of Toho Productions actors, after a prolonged strike, had left to form their own company, Shin Toho
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Born 1920-04-01.
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