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.

Academy Award winning Japanese director Akira Kurosawa produced Yojimbo ( 1961 ), and Sanjuro ( 1962 ), which both starred Toshirō Mifune as a mysterious Samurai swordsman for hire.

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Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), marked the beginning of the successful collaboration between Kurosawa and actor Toshirō Mifune that lasted until 1965.

* April 1 – Toshirō Mifune, Japanese actor ( d. 1997 )

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.

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.

In 1959, Hiroshi Inagaki wrote and directed a Japanese version, Aru kengo no shogai ( Life of an Expert Swordsman or Samurai Saga ), setting the story in 17th century Shogunate Japan and starring Toshirō Mifune as the Cyrano character " Heihachiro Komaki " and Yoko Tsukasa as the Roxanne character " Lady Ochii ".

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.

Toshiro Mifune ( Mifune Toshirō ; April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997 ) was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films.

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is a 1962 black-and-white Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshirō Mifune.

In the series, Speed ’ s full name was Go Mifune, in homage to Japanese film star Toshirō Mifune.

This was a homage to Japanese film star Toshirō Mifune.

is a 1958 jidai-geki film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshirō Mifune as General and Misa Uehara as Princess Yuki.

This can be noticed rather clearly in the film Midway where Frees reads for Toshirō Mifune's performance as Admiral Yamamoto ; or in the film Some Like It Hot, in which Frees provides the voice of funeral director Mozzarella.

* 1957: Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, adapted the story into the film Donzoko ( The Lower Depths ), starring Toshirō Mifune, in which the characters have been moved to Edo period Japan.

Akira Kurosawa's 1949 Japanese film Stray Dog, starring Toshirō Mifune and Takashi Shimura, is considered a precursor to the buddy cop film genre.

is a 1949 Japanese police procedural film noir directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring frequent collaborators Toshirō Mifune and Takashi Shimura.

It is notable for being the first of sixteen film collaborations between director Kurosawa and actor Toshirō Mifune.

Rodríguez directed many major stars, including Pedro Infante, Dolores del Río, María Félix, and even Toshirō Mifune, the favorite actor of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, as a Mexican Indian in the film Ánimas Trujano ( 1961 ).

The film features an international cast of superstars including Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshirō Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, James Shigeta, Pat Morita, Robert Ito and Christina Kokubo, among others.

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.

* Tsubaki Sanjūrō, a film by Akira Kurosawa, and its title character played by Toshirō Mifune

Hell in the Pacific is a 1968 World War II film starring Lee Marvin and Toshirō Mifune, the only two actors in the entire film.

The Samurai Trilogy is a film trilogy directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring Toshirō Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto and Koji Tsuruta as Kojirō Sasaki.

* Samurai Trilogy, a film trilogy starring Toshirō Mifune as Miyamoto Musashi

His film credits include Emperor Hirohito in Japan's Longest Day ( 日本のいちばん長い日, Nihon no ichiban nagai hi ), in which famous actor Toshirō Mifune played General Korechika Anami, Ii Naosuke in Samurai Assassin ( 侍, Samurai ), and a number of other jidaigeki ( samurai period films ).

He showed his ability for drama when Akira Kurosawa cast him for his 1965 film,, starring Toshirō Mifune.