Across the world, directors have used the heatwave as a metaphor for urban disaffection, abandonment and unrest. Outside of cities, blistering heat feels like nature’s violent reckoning with those too ...

Seven Samurai is frequently cited as one of the greatest films ever made and was even voted the greatest foreign-language ...

Akira Kurosawa was a seismic force, the kind of artist who makes other artists question their craft. Spielberg, Scorsese, Lucas, Tarantino—you name it, they all bow, one way or another, to the man who ...

Toshiro Mifune in The Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa dir, Toho Films, 1954. Photo the author. Preface: The big screen When I was young, movies were big. The Continental Theatre on Austin Street in ...

Eastwood had already seen Yojimbo and admired the lead performance of Toshiro Mifune. “Clint remembered Mifune’s tense, restrained yet effortlessly cool performance and fought to preserve the ...

UPI Almanac for Tuesday, April 1, 2025 On April 1, 1924, Adolf Hitler was sent to prison for five years after failing to take over Germany by force in the unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch." ...

Hell in the Pacific is a criminally underrated World War II film that starred none other than Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune.

Capcom really just picked up where they left off with Onimusha’s celebrity fancasting. Capcom has made an interesting announcement for their upcoming Onimusha: Way of the Sword. The series ...

Musashi’s face model – iconic movie star, Toshiro Mifune The protagonist of this game is a fierce young samurai, constantly moving from one bloody and mucky fight to the next.

Late Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune is being used as the face model for the protagonist in Onimusha: Way of the Sword.

Elsewhere in the conversation, Lee explained how his version — which is titled Highest 2 Lowest — is different than the original: “In Kurosawa’s film, Toshiro Mifune is a shoemaker,” he ...