Best movies of Toshirô Mifune

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 Nakadai, Toshirô Mifune, Chishû Ryû, 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 : 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 : Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirô Mifune, Teruhiko Aoi, Hisaya Morishige,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905. In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve...

Actors : Pepe Romay, Columba Domínguez, Flor Silvestre, Toshirô Mifune,
Directors : Ismael Rodríguez,

Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually ...

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 : 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 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 : Daisuke Katô, Yôsuke Natsuki, Michiyo Aratama, Toshirô Mifune,
Directors : Senkichi Taniguchi,

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada...

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

One of Mifune's very few yakuza film appearances.

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Ryô Ikebe, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Senkichi Taniguchi,

Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to cooperate in a smuggling scheme, conflict arises...

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Yôsuke Natsuki, Toshirô Mifune, Makoto Satô,

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his ...

Actors : Sô Yamamura, Toshirô Mifune, Tadao Nakamaru, Makoto Satô,
Directors : Seiji Maruyama,

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese ...

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, Tadao Nakamaru, Toshirô Mifune, Makoto Satô,
Directors : Senkichi Taniguchi,

Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in the Middle East, where they find intrigue and romance in the court of an evil king.

Actors : Ken Matsudaira, Mako, Toshirô Mifune, Mariska Hargitay,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrate from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural California and start a strawberry farm, slowly integrating themselves into the life of the ...

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirô Mifune, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Keiju Kobayashi,
Directors : Daisuke Itô,

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was ...

Actors : Sô Yamamura, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Hiromichi Horikawa,

Reporter Goro Arai covers the war for a Japanese newspaper. He follows the activities of Japan's top military leader, Hideki Tojo, and comes to view Tojo as a dangerous military tyrant. But...

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Seizaburô Kawazu, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned ...

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Makoto Satô, Nobuko Otowa, Ryô Tamura,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he ...