A version of this interview was original published at the Telluride Film Festival, where “Mifune” premiered this fall. The film opens November 25 at the IFC Center in New York with more cities to ...

One was a hardworking Renaissance man, a student of literature trained as a painter and apprenticed to director Kajiro Yamamoto (Chushingura). The other was a hard-living military veteran, a cameraman ...

We finally got a glimpse of “Shogun World” in the latest episode of “Westworld,” and the idea to mash up the two universes isn’t just a coincidence. There’s a long history of Westerns borrowing from ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hollywood celebrated the life of legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune on Monday, honouring him with a star on its iconic Walk of Fame two decades after his death. Mifune rose to ...

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.

Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, the basis for Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars, chronicles the travails of a down-and-out samurai who enters a seemingly deserted town only to find that it’s ...

Rikiya Mifune, grandson of Toshiro Mifune (R), and his father Shiro Mifune attend the posthumous star ceremony for Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune in Hollywood, on November 14, 2016 Hollywood celebrated ...

Prominent Japanese/American director Steven Okazaki is set to shoot “Mifune: Last Samurai,” a high-profile feature docu on Toshiro Mifune, the most prominent actor of Japan’s golden age of cinema.

Toshiro Mifune was the first Japanese — or, for that matter, Asian — actor to become an international action star. Born in 1920, he became one of the few Japanese known to foreign film fans, with the ...