Toshiro Mifune Articles

Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai SEVEN SAMURAI Review Part 1 Although Seven Samurai has often been called an epic, it's really not. Almost all of the action takes place indoors or in small settings. There are many characters and extras, but there are only forty bandits, and maybe twice as many villagers. This is personalized, small-scale warfare. The only epopee the film indulges [...]

SHICHININ NO SAMURAI / SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) Direction: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Isao Kimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Yoshio Tsuchiya Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni Oscar Movies Toshiro Mifune, Seven Samurai By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica Some films get better after repeated viewings. Akira Kurosawa's 1954 black-and-white drama Shichinin no samurai / Seven Samurai is one of them. [...]

Toshiro Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto in Akira Kurosawa's Drunken Angel Akira Kurosawa's DRUNKEN ANGEL Review Part I As for the DVD package? Unfortunately this is one of the very lesser releases by The Criterion Collection. First, the video transfer, in a 1.37:1 aspect ratio, is from a really poor source – Drunken Angel looks like a mediocre ten-year-old VHS tape, laden with lines, scratches, ghosts, blobs, [...]

Yoidore tenshi / Drunken Angel (1948) Direction: Akira Kurosawa Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Keinosuke Uekusa Cast: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: Watching Akira Kurosawa’s 1948 black-and-white effort Yoidore Tenshi / Drunken Angel is an interesting experience, for he clearly had not mastered the art form, yet. Even so, there is so much that is good in [...]