Toshirō Mifune
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Toshirō Mifune was a Japanese actor who lived from 1920 to 1997 and became one of the most internationally recognized faces of Japanese cinema. He is widely remembered for his collaborations with acclaimed director Akira Kurosawa and for bringing intensity and charisma to both samurai films and other genres, helping to popularize Japanese film worldwide.
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- Born
- 1920
- Died
- 1997
- Works
- 1
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- Samurai I
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- Rejection of unfair offers in the ultimatum game is no evidence of strong reciprocity
· 2012 · cited 189x
- Therapeutic Potential of Vasculogenesis and Osteogenesis Promoted by Peripheral Blood CD34-Positive Cells for Functional Bone Healing
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Toshiro Mifune (三船 敏郎, Mifune Toshirō; 1 April 1920 – 24 December 1997) was a Japanese actor and producer. The recipient of numerous awards and accolades over a lengthy career, he is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all time. He often played heroic characters and was noted for his commanding screen presence in the Japanese film industry.
Although he amassed more than 180 screen credits, Mifune is best known for his 16 collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa. These collaborations included Kurosawa's critically acclaimed jidaigeki films such as Rashomon (1950), for which Mifune won the San Marco Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958), and Yojimbo (1961), for which Mifune won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival and was recognised at the Blue Ribbon Awards as Best Actor. He also portrayed Miyamoto Musashi in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy (1954–1956), Lord Toranaga in the NBC television miniseries Shōgun, and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in three different films.
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