Review: Mifune: The Last Samurai
 

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What if there was a single movie star from the golden age of world cinema who combined the cool of Humphrey Bogart, the charisma of Paul Newman and the acting chops of Marlon Brando?


There?s no hyperbole in describing Japanese superstar Toshiro Mifune in just such glowing terms. In a career that spanned almost 50 years and 170 films ? including his many earth-shaking, samurai-themed collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa in the 1950s and ?60s ? Mifune reinvented the modern movie hero as a lone figure fighting impossible odds to help others and realize his own ideas of social justice.?