Toshirō Mifune (三船 敏郎 Mifune Toshirō [miɸɯne toɕiɽoː], April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in films such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo. He is also popular for portraying Musashi Miyamoto in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy.
Toshirō Mifune was born in Qingdao, Shandong, China, to Japanese pa...
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Toshirō Mifune (三船 敏郎 Mifune Toshirō [miɸɯne toɕiɽoː], April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in films such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo. He is also popular for portraying Musashi Miyamoto in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy.
Toshirō Mifune was born in Qingdao, Shandong, China, to Japanese parents, and grew up in the Chinese city of Dalian with his parents and two siblings. In his youth, Mifune worked in the photography shop of his father Tokuzo, a commercial photographer and importer who had emigrated from northern Japan.
Tokuzo was a Methodist, and there is evidence that he was also a missionary, ministering to the ethnic Japanese Christians in Dalian.
Although the young Mifune spent the first 19 years of his life in China, as a Japanese citizen he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army Aviation, where he served in the...
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