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Japanese actor (1920–1997)
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The native form of this personal name is Mifune Toshiro. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Toshiro Mifune
Mifune in 1954
Born
(1920-04-01)April 1, 1920
Seitō, Shandong, China
Died
December 24, 1997(1997-12-24) (aged 77)
Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
Resting place
Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Occupations
Actor
film producer
film director
Years active
1947–1995
Spouse
Sachiko Yoshimine
(m. 1950; died 1995)
Partner
Mika Kitagawa
Children
3
Military career
Allegiance
Empire of Japan
Service/branch
Imperial Japanese Army Air Service
Years of service
1940–1945
Rank
Sergeant
Unit
Aerial Photography
Battles/wars
World War II
Japanese name
Kanji
三船 敏郎
Hiragana
みふね としろう
Katakana
ミフネ トシロウ
Transcriptions
Romanization
Mifune Toshirō
Website
mifuneproductions.co.jp
Signature
Toshiro Mifune (三船 敏郎, Mifune Toshirō, April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor and producer. A winner of numerous awards and accolades over a lengthy career,[1][2] Mifune is best known for starring in Akira Kurosawa's critically acclaimed jidaigeki films such as Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958) and Yojimbo (1961). He also portrayed Miyamoto Musashi in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy (1954–1956), Lord Toranaga in the NBC television miniseries Shōgun, and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in three different films.[3] He is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all time.[4][5]
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ToshiroMifune (三船 敏郎, MifuneToshirō, April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor and producer. A winner of numerous awards and accolades...
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performers such as Miyoshi Umeki, James Garner, Bob Hope, Cary Grant, and ToshirōMifune. Taka was born on July 24, 1925 in Seattle, but raised in Los Angeles...
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of sixteen film collaborations between director Kurosawa and actor ToshiroMifune. Sanada (Takashi Shimura) is an alcoholic doctor (the titular "drunken...
land-owning samurai, whom Kambei reluctantly takes in as a disciple ToshiroMifune as Kikuchiyo (菊千代), a humorous, mercurial and temperamental rogue who...
1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring ToshiroMifune. It is a sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 Yojimbo. Originally an adaptation...
in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. Starring ToshiroMifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura as various people who...
knowing that he is a general and the woman is a princess. The film stars ToshiroMifune as General Makabe Rokurōta and Misa Uehara as Princess Yuki while the...
Kyoto International Film and Art Festival describes the award, "The ToshiroMifune Award... honors an actor who has great potential for international success...
World War II film directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin and ToshirōMifune, the only two actors in the film. It is based on the importance of human...
Trilogy is a film trilogy directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring ToshiroMifune as Musashi Miyamoto and Kōji Tsuruta as Kojirō Sasaki. The films are...
adapted by NBC as a television miniseries starring Richard Chamberlain, ToshiroMifune, and Yoko Shimada; the production was one of the highest rated programs...
Person of Cultural Merit (2007) Asahi Prize (2013) Kawakita Award (2013) ToshiroMifune Award (2015) Order of Culture (2015) "Tatsuya Nakadai". Movies & TV...
Samurai) is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring ToshiroMifune, Koshiro Matsumoto, Yūnosuke Itō, and Michiyo Aratama. It is set in...
of 1967. In the series, Speed's full name was Go Mifune, in homage to Japanese film star ToshiroMifune. His name, Americanized, became Speed Racer. His...
entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars ToshiroMifune as a young man who gets a prominent position in a corrupt postwar Japanese...
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Empire of Japan
Imperial Japanese Army Air Service
Sergeant