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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Toshiro Mifune</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/toshiro-mifune/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>SEVEN SAMURAI Review Pt.2 &#8211; Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/seven-samurai-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/seven-samurai-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 07:48:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26623</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/seven-samurai-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SEVEN SAMURAI Review d: Akira Kurosawa</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/seven-samurai-akira-kurosawa/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/seven-samurai-akira-kurosawa/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 07:47:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/08/17/dvd-review-akira-kurosawas-seven-samurai/</guid> <description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/seven-samurai-akira-kurosawa/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DRUNKEN ANGEL Review Part II &#8211; Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-review-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-review-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:00:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25532</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; Drunken Angel looks like a mediocre ten-year-old VHS tape, laden with lines, scratches, ghosts, blobs, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-review-toshiro-mifune-takashi-shimura/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DRUNKEN ANGEL d: Akira Kurosawa</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-akira-kurosawa/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-akira-kurosawa/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:00:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25531</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/drunken-angel-akira-kurosawa/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Akira Kurosawa: SEVEN SAMURAI, RASHOMON on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/akira-kurosawa-seven-samuria-rashomon-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/akira-kurosawa-seven-samuria-rashomon-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:05:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23599</guid> <description><![CDATA[Toshiro Mifune (second from right) in Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa would have turned 100 today. In celebration of his centenary, Turner Classic Movies is showing 26 of the director's films throughout the month of March. Today's Kurosawa series began early &#8212; at 3 a.m. Pacific Time &#8212; with a presentation of Sanshiro Sugata, the director's earliest effort. Several little-known and little-seen early Kurosawas later (I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/akira-kurosawa-seven-samuria-rashomon-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Akira Kurosawa TCM Tribute</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/akira-kurosawa-tcm-tribute-712/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/akira-kurosawa-tcm-tribute-712/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:03:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16606</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE BAD SLEEP WELL Review: Part I The saddest thing is that the corruption detailed in The Bad Sleep Well feels so minor league today that it seems almost childish when compared to Enron, Worldcom, and the many others in the years since. In a sense, Iwabuchi isn't even the top criminal in the film. That title would belong to the corporation's little-seen president, Arimura [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/reviews/the-bad-sleep-well-toshiro-mifune/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE BAD SLEEP WELL d: Akira Kurosawa</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-bad-sleep-well-akira-kurosawa/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/the-bad-sleep-well-akira-kurosawa/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:49:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
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