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