Director Steven Okazaki’s documentary on movie star Toshiro Mifune features interviews with Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and others. A version of this interview was original published at the ...

Toshirô Mifune from 'Seven Samurai' holding a lightsaber against a blue background with the words "Star Wars" Image by Zanda Rice When Seven Samurai was released in Japan on April 26, 1954, it changed ...

The image of Toshiro Mifune wielding a samurai sword, eyes glaring at his foe, is among the first images to come to most American filmgoers's minds when they think about Japanese cinema. And ...

"A lot of people try to imitate Mifune, but nobody can." Stop and watch this now! The first official trailer has debuted online for a fantastic documentary called Mifune: The Last Samurai, profiling ...

Midway (1976) opens like a history lecture and earns it. The battle it covers, four days in June 1942, reshaped the entire ...

Toshiro Mifune was a name to conjure with. A galvanic performer who was as present in his roles as anyone who ever lived, the legendary Japanese actor is the subject of “Mifune: The Last Samurai,” a ...

In his defining moments on screen, Toshiro Mifune was glowering and silent, as if careful not to let slip a hint of his next move. To judge by Mifune: The Last Samurai, he was much the same off screen ...

Toshiro Mifune was the first Japanese — or, for that matter, Asian — actor to become an international action star. Born in 1920, he became one of the few Japanese known to foreign film fans, with the ...

A look at the life and art of Toshiro Mifune captures a Japanese movie star's revolutionary ferocity but not the mystery behind it. “Mifune: The Last Samurai,” a dutiful and diverting but rather ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A version of this interview was original published at the Telluride Film Festival, where "Mifune" premiered this fall. The film ...