Best movies of Toshirô Mifune

Actors : Yasuko Sawaguchi, Toshirô Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the original tale, though, ...

Actors : Reiko Dan, Yûnosuke Itô, Toshirô Mifune, Makoto Satô,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

In 1945, Japanese Army Sergeant Kosugi and a platoon of young green recruits must retake and defend a fort occupied by the Chinese forces.

Actors : Eiji Okuda, Toshirô Mifune, Gô Katô, Kinnosuke Nakamura,
Directors : Kei Kumai,

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who ...

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Chishû Ryû, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Seiji Maruyama,

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan.

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Tadao Nakamaru, Mie Hama, Kumi Mizuno,
Directors : Senkichi Taniguchi,

Sukezaemon, a pirate, is shipwrecked in a strange corner of the world. With his companion, a wizard named Sennin, Sukezaemon becomes entangled in a plot by the evil premier to succeed the dying King Raksha.

Actors : Rentarô Mikuni, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Kin'ya Kitaôji,
Directors : Tadashi Sawashima,

Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant ...

Actors : Timothy Patrick Murphy, Richard Boone, Toshirô Mifune, Mike Starr,
Directors : Tsugunobu Kotani,

A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshirô Mifune, Makoto Satô, Ryô Tamura,
Directors : Jun Fukuda,

Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they ever have, creating enmity and ...

Actors : Yûjirô Ishihara, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Osamu Takizawa,
Directors : Kei Kumai,

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel ...

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Toshirô Mifune, Shima Iwashita, Kinnosuke Nakamura,

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by ...

Actors : Kyôko Kagawa, Yuriko Hoshi, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

Mohei is a wandering swordsman. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him and comes to depend upon his courage and his battlefield skills. Those skills are sorely...

Actors : Toru Koyanagi, Chishû Ryû, Toshirô Mifune, Hisako Sakabe,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy's rescue in times of difficulty.

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Ryôko Nakano, Takashi Shimura, Kichiemon Nakamura,
Directors : Kei Kumai,

Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has ...

Actors : Bunta Sugawara, Toshirô Mifune, Shin Saburi, Chiezô Kataoka,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

The eastern and western factions of the Yakuza battle to control Japan.

Actors : Yôsuke Natsuki, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Shûe Matsubayashi,

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain momentum in the war is for the air ...

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshirô Mifune, Mie Hama, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Toshirô Mifune,

During the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Years after the war, he is kidnapped by Mitsura and Keigo Gunji, ...

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Toshio Kurosawa, Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Seiji Maruyama,

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward ...

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Masaru Matsuda, Sachiko Wakayama, Sakae Takita,
Directors : Akira Kobayashi,

Island villagers find a young woman and young man swept ashore near their remote village in northeastern Japan. The two have tried to escape the girl's enforced marriage to another man, in ...

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshirô Mifune, Chikage Awashima, Junko Ikeuchi,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

Tatsu, an illiterate laborer, works on a back-breaking road-building project deep in the Hokkaido forests. The road crew is a hard-drinking bunch who find humor in brutality. Tatsu seems to...

Actors : Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Toshirô Mifune, Shin Saburi,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

One of Mifune's very few yakuza film appearances.