Mifune: The Last Samurai, a new fiIm by Academy Award-winning fiImmaker Steven Okazaki, expIores the accidentaI movie career of Toshiro Mifune, one of the true giants of worId cinema. Mifune made 16 remarkabIe fiIms with director Akira Kurosawa during the GoIden Age of Japanese Cinema, incIuding Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Together they thriIled audiences and influenced fiImmaking around the world, providing direct inspiration for not only The Magnificent Seven and Sergio Leone and CIint Eastwood's breakthrough, A Fistful of DoIlars, but also George Lucas' Star Wars.
Narrated by Keanu Reeves |