Toshiro Mifune was a name to conjure with. A galvanic performer who was as present in his roles as anyone who ever lived, the legendary Japanese actor is the subject of “Mifune: The Last Samurai,” a ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Rikiya Mifune was just 9 in 1997 when Toshiro Mifune died ...

Beginning in the late 1940s and through the ’50s and ’60s, as we learn in the documentary “Mifune: The Last Samurai,” the actor Toshiro Mifune and writer-director Akira Kurosawa had one of the most ...

LOS ANGELES - Legendary Japanese movie star Toshiro Mifune, a trailblazer for Asian actors in American film, was posthumously honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on ...

Toshiro Mifune was a name to conjure with. A galvanic performer who was as present in his roles as anyone who ever lived, the legendary Japanese actor is the subject of “Mifune: The Last Samurai,” a ...

Capcom has spilled more details on Onimusha: Way of the Sword following its new trailer during State of Play yesterday evening, revealing the game’s protagonist is based on the appearance of Japanese ...

Toshiro Mifune died of multiple organ failure in 1997 at the age of 77, but the impenetrable barrier of death hasn’t stopped Capcom from digitally skinning the legendary actor’s likeness for Onimusha: ...

Note: "Drunken Angel" screens April 14 at MOPA as part of Famous Firsts since it marks the first collaboration of Mifune and Kurosawa The documentary "Mifune: The Last Samurai" played at the San Diego ...

– Actor Toshiro Mifune is 74. – Author William Manchester is 72. – Actor George Grizzard is 66. – Actress Jane Powell is 65. – Actress Debbie Reynolds is 62. – Actor Gordon Jump is 62. – Actor Don ...

Director Akira Kurosawa, left, and Toshiro Mifune confer on the set of the 1965 film “Red Beard,” which many consider one of Kurosawa’s best. Mifune starred as a rural doctor confronting a post-war ...