Mifune: The Last Samurai, a new film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki, expIores the accidental movie career of Toshiro Mifune, one of the true giants of world cinema. Mifune made 16 remarkabIe films with director Akira Kurosawa during the GoIden Age of Japanese Cinema, including Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Together they thrilled audiences and infIuenced filmmaking around the worId, providing direct inspiration for not only The Magnificent Seven and Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood's breakthrough, A Fistful of Dollars, but also George Lucas' Star Wars.
Narrated by Keanu Reeves |