Fact File :

Birth Name: Toshiro Mifune

Date Of Birth:1st April 1920

Place Of Birth: Tsingtao, China

Date Of Death:24th December 1997

Place Of Death:
Mitaka City, Tokyo, Japan

Height: 5’ 8”

Nickname: The Wolf

Debut Film:“Snow Trail” (1947)

Signature Film
“The Seven Samurai” (1956)

Toshiro Mifune Book &
Seven Samurai Movie Poster
Now Available:

Book Title: The Emperor And The Wolf - The Lives & Films Of Akira Kurosawa & Toshiro Mifune by Stuart Galbraith IV
Book Description:
The first -- and long overdue -- English-language biography of two of the world's great cinema figures. Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune made sixteen feature films together, including Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo, and High and Low -- all undisputed masterworks of world cinema. Kurosawa's films inspired blockbuster remakes and influenced directors like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. Meanwhile, Mifune virtually invented the roaming warrior rogue, a character adapted with great success by actors like Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Bruce Willis, and countless others. Their impact on the international film world is undisputable, yet at the very height of their abilities, Kurosawa and Mifune went their separate ways. After Red Beard in 1965 they would never work together again -- nor would they ever achieve the same level of success apart as they had together. The Emperor and the Wolf is an in-depth look at the life and work of these two luminaries of cinema. Full of behind-the-scenes details about their tumultuous lives and stormy relationships with the studios and each other, it is also a provocative look at postwar American and Japanese culture and the different lenses through which the two societies viewed each other. Click the text link at left for more details: