The surviving Japanese delegation rescues Link, and the ambassador instructs him to assist Kuroda ( Mifune ) in tracking down Gauche so that he may kill him and recover the sword and his honor.

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

It was also the breakout role for legendary star Toshirō Mifune.

In 1968, Marvin also appeared in another Boorman film, the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful World War II character study Hell in the Pacific, also starring famed Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune.

The character is loosely inspired by General Makabe Rokurōta, a character from The Hidden Fortress played by Toshirō Mifune, whom series creator George Lucas also considered casting as Obi-Wan.

He also had a small role in Steven Spielberg's 1941 ( 1979 ) in scenes with Toshirō Mifune and Christopher Lee ; during one scene, he names the objects that he has with himself, and sounds like he does in Dr. Strangelove during the " Survival Kit Contents Check " scene.

While Kurosawa made some very uncharitable comments about Mifune's acting, he also admitted in an interview in Interview magazine that " All the films that I made with Mifune, without him, they would not exist ".

He also presented Mifune with the Kawashita award which he himself had won two years prior.

The 1970 film Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo also features Mifune as a similar character.

Incident at Blood Pass, made in the same year, also stars Mifune in a role similar to that of Yojimbo.

Apart from instruction by judo's founder, Fukuda also learned from Kyuzo Mifune.

The Mach Five also has a small trunk, which is unusual in a race car but was featured in many episodes, often as a hiding place for main characters Spritle ( Kurio Mifune ) and Chim-Chim ( Senpei ).

On the film's Criterion Collection DVD, Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie comments that Kurosawa was impressed by the athletic agility and " cat-like " moves of Mifune, which also had bearing in his casting.

The film follows two threads, one centered around the Japanese chief strategist Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ( Toshirō Mifune ), and the other around fictional characters, Captain Matt Garth ( Charlton Heston ), an American naval officer who is involved in various phases of the US planning and execution of the battle and Garth's son ( also a pilot involved in the battle ) is romantically involved with Haruko Sakura ( Christina Kokubo ), an American-born daughter of Japanese immigrants, who has been interned with her parents.

Some scenes are from the Japanese Toho film Hawai Middouei daikaikusen: Taiheiyo no arashi ( 1960 ) ( which also stars Mifune ).

The basic plot concept bears a strong similarity to the earlier movie Red Sun ( 1971 ), also featuring Toshiro Mifune.

* " Toshiro Mifune also took on foreign assignments, but few did him justice.

Simple guard pass also known as the arm / leg pull is a guard pass demonstrated in The Essence Of Judo by Kyuzo Mifune, and it is an unnamed technique described in The Canon Of Judo.

Stacking Guard Pass is also demonstrated in The Essence Of Judo by Mifune, and it is also an unnamed technique described in The Canon Of JudoThe main characteristic of the technique is one practitioner lifting the opponent and stacking him, into a possible neck crank submission, when the practitioner is in the opponent's open guard.

Near Knee Guard Pass is also demonstrated in The Essence Of Judo by Mifune.

1941 is also notable as one of the few American films featuring Toshirō Mifune, a popular Japanese actor.

It is also the only American film in which Mifune used his own voice in speaking Japanese and English.

Mifune also states that Maeda was one of the most vigorous promoters of judo, although not by teaching the art, instead generating recognition of judo through his many combats with contenders from other disciplines.

According to actor Toshiro Mifune, the film was originally going to be called Six Samurai, with Mifune playing the role of Kyuzo.

Additionally, according to the special edition DVD commentary, the studio originally wanted the role of Mr. Miyagi to be played by Toshirō Mifune, but writer Robert Mark Kamen was opposed to that casting choice.

After Kurosawa scolded Mifune for arriving late to the set one morning, Mifune made it a point to be ready on set at 6: 00 AM every day in full makeup and costume.

This book was kept by Mifune himself only to be caught.

Mifune's Last Song (; in North America and Swedish: Mifune ), 1999, is the third film to be made according to the " Dogme 95 " group rules.

On a technical level the influence of judo great Kyuzo Mifune and classical jujutsu practitioner Sanjuro Oshima of the Gyokushin-ryu cannot be overstated.

Mifune has been credited as originating the " roving warrior " archetype, which he perfected during his collaboration with Kurosawa.

Thus, it has been traditionally credited to Awami Mifune, a great grandson of Emperor Kōbun.

In 1981, Frankenheimer travelled to Japan to shoot the cult martial-arts action film The Challenge, with Scott Glenn and legendary Japanese star, Toshiro Mifune.

Other characters include a cannibalistic African tribe ; Nazi Sergeant Gutterbuhg, who has a mechanical arm ; Betsy, a stowaway student who is suicidally in love with Indiana ; and a pirate leader named Kezure ( described as a Toshirō Mifune type ), who dies eating a peach because he is not pure of heart.

Toshiro Mifune was born in Qingdao, China, to Japanese Methodist parents, and grew up in the Chinese city of Dalian with his parents and two siblings.

However, the union was affiliated with the Communist party, which made Mifune, a religiously conservative man, very uncomfortable.

He often portrayed a samurai or ronin, who was usually coarse and gruff ( Kurosawa once explained that the only weakness he could find with Mifune and his acting ability was his " rough " voice ), inverting the popular stereotype of the genteel, clean-cut samurai.

Clint Eastwood was among the first of many American actors to adopt this persona, which he used to great effect in his Western roles, especially the Spaghetti Westerns made with Sergio Leone, where he played a similar " Man with No Name " character like Mifune did in Yojimbo.

After the film's release, the careers of each man took different arcs: Mifune continued to enjoy success with a range of samurai and war-themed films ( Rebellion, Samurai Assassin, The Emperor and a General, among others ).

In 1980, Mifune experienced popularity with mainstream American audiences through his role as Lord Toranaga in the television miniseries Shogun.

Mifune was awarded the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon in 1986 and the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Japanese government in 1993.

Of Akira Kurosawa, Mifune said, " I am proud of nothing I have done other than with him ".

Red Beard is the last of 16 films in which Kurosawa worked with Mifune.

Although the author of the novel upon which Red Beard was based offered Kurosawa praise on the completed film, Nogami wrote that Oguni's comment caused Kurosawa for the first time to question Mifune's abilities, and Kurosawa never again sought to work with Mifune.

" comes from, taking out Gō Mifune and replacing it with his English name.

In racing, he sports a white open-face helmet with an M ( representing Mifune Motors ) flashed on top.

Reluctantly quitting his job after feuding with a member of a corporate car manufacturing company who disapproved of the construction of a new engine for the Mach 5, he founded his own company, Mifune Motors ( In the series ' Americanization, the company was changed to Racer Motors ).