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 ...

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 ...

Stray Dog, made in 1949 by Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa, is a less expert thriller but a deeper movie than his recent High and Low. Both are cops-and-robbers chase films, starring Toshiro Mifune.

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 ...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars and filmmakers and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between. This is the ...

When Seven Samurai was released in Japan on April 26, 1954, it changed cinematic storytelling forever. Arguably the most famous film by the legendary Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai created the template ...

One of the cinephile must-see documentaries of 2016 is "Mifune: The Last Samurai," an in-depth look at legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune. He is best known for his work with the great Akira ...

Jeremy has more than 2300 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

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 ...