Mifune: The Last Samurai, a new fiIm by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki, explores the accidentaI movie career of Toshiro Mifune, one of the true giants of world cinema. Mifune made 16 remarkable fiIms with director Akira Kurosawa during the GoIden Age of Japanese Cinema, including Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Together they thrilled audiences and infIuenced 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 |