Toshiro Mifune died within a few days of Chris Farley. Just like the death of Mother Theresa was swallowed up in the press coverage of the death of Princess Diana, the greater was overshadowed by the media-hype focused on the lesser. He deserved more than the fleeting mentions in the media.
@samuraiboxer29 sanjuro, imo. then this one, yojimbo (yep, i prefer the 2nd one). then the samurai trilogy by Hiroshi Inagaki. then the Shogun mini series, in which he's not the main character, but you'll get a good laugh at one point and the rest of his appearances are awesome as well, every single one.
@samuraiboxer29 Best samurai movie of all time is: Sword of Doom
But no body will tell you this. In that movie, Mifune also acts, but he wasnt a main roll, he was co main roll, of course he is a positive person in this movie.
Good lord, please don't mention Sword of Doom in the same sentence as this one. It's not a great movie, or even a particularly good one. A better movie by Okamoto is Assassin.
@gguagliardo Mifune was in this movie for sure. He plays a roll of a positive samurai - Toranosuke Shimada, who quotes that famous sentence: "The sword is the soul. Study the soul to know the sword. Evil mind, evil sword".
Still i thing that Sword of Doom is best samurai movie ever - no funny scenes, no spoiled stupid humor, no stupid story lines with naive dialogs,no magicians moves or godly strenght or other crap, just real samurai characters and real samurai skill and spirit. Always TUMBS UP
It's so obvious that this was the inspiration for "Fist Full of Dollars". I asked a film student once if he had ever heard of Akira Kurosawa. He said he had never heard of him! ばか ! Why is the genius of Akira Kurosawa unknown to most Westerners?
@MagnusCrustulum To put your statement into perspective, I've met an art history grad student (1st year) who said that western art's only purpose was to be pretty and an EE student who couldn't draw a state diagram for her finite state machines. Both cases are appalling. You shouldn't judge the knowledge of a community by one person. I've taken a few film classes. Kurosawa is fairly well known.
O you silly Japanese sods! Could you not drink a few cups of Sake less before flying your legendary Kamikaze attacks on the American warships? You know, though their nasty aircraft carriers are quite large but they are difficult to hit if one does see them double! For had Japan prevailed the movies of Akira Kurosawa would have been shown in the cinemas and not their dull and cheap American copies! One does sometimes not even recognize the theft and is reminded of it only by the critics.
Such a classic. Thousands of dollars in CGI can't beat this rawness. I wish they still made films like this about tormented heroes and characters that reflected the real human qualities of people back then.
@elguapotetigre Japanese movie producer also try to make film `Jidaigeki` or Old time movie like realistically today. But No one like Kurosawa`s films. Oh well ,,,,,
How can anyone put Clint in the same bucket with Toshiro? Toshiro has fire and passion in his acting, his movements...Clint is a one-note broomstick. If they were together side by side in a movie, who would pay any attention to a wooden gunslinger?
This is the man that was the inspiration for Clint Eastwood's character in the Fistful of Dollars trilogy.
I don't know if Clint & Toshiro have ever been in the same movie together, but I would've loved to have seen Toshiro as the Samurai and Clint as the Nameless Cowboy fighting side by side. Or an East meets West extrrrrrrrravaganza. That children is what we call AWESOME.
Just got this and Sanjuro on Blu-ray for Kurosawa's 100th bday, picture quality is excellent. I absolutely love this film, it is my favorite Kurosawa film after Shichinin no Samurai.
Toshiro Mifune= Bad ass yo. Fuck these new age pussy "heroes"
TheEgotasticRipoff 2 weeks ago
Yojimbo lied to the sheriff. Those six men weren't dead....YET. My favorite Kurosawa.
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magaleecraveiro 3 weeks ago
like a boss
alucard6679 1 month ago
Of ALL the actors that ever lived no one has had the presence of this man.
TheJamezMan 1 month ago
Today December 24th is 14 years from Toshiro-san death. ありがとうございます。 Arigato gozaimasu Toshiro-san. Never forget for you.
luciealie 2 months ago
The real Man, we don't have someone like him anymore .... :=( .
WineRedX 2 months ago
omoroi
indiadissher 2 months ago
Great leg play by Mifune
Unzaman 4 months ago
Fucking Golden.
hispanicmagic 7 months ago
Toshiro Mifune died within a few days of Chris Farley. Just like the death of Mother Theresa was swallowed up in the press coverage of the death of Princess Diana, the greater was overshadowed by the media-hype focused on the lesser. He deserved more than the fleeting mentions in the media.
ReneeSchiber 7 months ago
Mifune was a truly great actor!
Fregra 8 months ago
Toshiro Mifune's voice alone would make satan crap himself. What a badass!
TheThing88 9 months ago 2
Ushitora didnt like this
Jakedaww 9 months ago
Dont forget the man who was called Jackass by mihune at the beginning of this video,Yoshio Tsuchiya is nice and lovely actor.
yuniao 10 months ago
@yuniao he was in Seven Samurai as well. I love that guy, really good actor with passion.
samrit86 9 months ago 2
@samrit86 yes!he also was Kurosawa's good partner as well as Minune.
thnx.
yuniao 6 months ago
"Aniki!!!" >:O
Promou 10 months ago 2
What a great actor...
masakokubo 10 months ago
Fixing to watch this on netflix streaming. Just got done with Hidden Fortress. It's classic Japanese movie month at my place.
Elidoransgar 11 months ago
dayum....he killed 6 ppl in like 15seconds....
and told dude they were dead before- yojimbou was the first toshirou mifune film i saw and its always awesome no matter how many times i see it
1x93cm 11 months ago
BROTHER!!! (best face ever...)
Aloefire 1 year ago
I love the dudes laugh at 0:08 LOL so fucking funny
aliveinvaintodie 1 year ago
who is this man? *haha*
aynradd 1 year ago
1:58 "ah, yes. he's going to make it seem like there was a big brawl"
2:03 "fuck yeah"
2:18 "lol, looks like he's having fun... overdoing it though?"
2:30 "kurosawa: oi toshiro-san, jubun na?"
tried12usernames 1 year ago
what's the best toshiro mifune movie?
samuraiboxer29 1 year ago
@samuraiboxer29 sanjuro, imo. then this one, yojimbo (yep, i prefer the 2nd one). then the samurai trilogy by Hiroshi Inagaki. then the Shogun mini series, in which he's not the main character, but you'll get a good laugh at one point and the rest of his appearances are awesome as well, every single one.
tried12usernames 1 year ago
@samuraiboxer29 Best samurai movie of all time is: Sword of Doom
But no body will tell you this. In that movie, Mifune also acts, but he wasnt a main roll, he was co main roll, of course he is a positive person in this movie.
S3rd4rJol3 11 months ago
@S3rd4rJol3
Good lord, please don't mention Sword of Doom in the same sentence as this one. It's not a great movie, or even a particularly good one. A better movie by Okamoto is Assassin.
textthing 10 months ago
@S3rd4rJol3 Mifune wasn't in Sword of Doom... sure you arent thinking of Nakadai?
gguagliardo 9 months ago
@gguagliardo Mifune is not the star of Sword of Doom, but he is in it. He has that great scene in the snow.
DreadedGuardian 9 months ago
@gguagliardo Mifune was in this movie for sure. He plays a roll of a positive samurai - Toranosuke Shimada, who quotes that famous sentence: "The sword is the soul. Study the soul to know the sword. Evil mind, evil sword".
Still i thing that Sword of Doom is best samurai movie ever - no funny scenes, no spoiled stupid humor, no stupid story lines with naive dialogs,no magicians moves or godly strenght or other crap, just real samurai characters and real samurai skill and spirit. Always TUMBS UP
S3rd4rJol3 9 months ago
this dude is the original man with no name :)
SgtKaneGunlock 1 year ago 7
hahaha, " I almost forgot - I gotta beat him up! "
bustedup 1 year ago
I love this guy!
rpchambon 1 year ago
Come to think of it, there are a lot of movies inspired by Kurosawa's work, including Star Wars.
MagnusCrustulum 1 year ago
It's so obvious that this was the inspiration for "Fist Full of Dollars". I asked a film student once if he had ever heard of Akira Kurosawa. He said he had never heard of him! ばか ! Why is the genius of Akira Kurosawa unknown to most Westerners?
MagnusCrustulum 1 year ago 2
@MagnusCrustulum To put your statement into perspective, I've met an art history grad student (1st year) who said that western art's only purpose was to be pretty and an EE student who couldn't draw a state diagram for her finite state machines. Both cases are appalling. You shouldn't judge the knowledge of a community by one person. I've taken a few film classes. Kurosawa is fairly well known.
NoOne3234 1 year ago
O you silly Japanese sods! Could you not drink a few cups of Sake less before flying your legendary Kamikaze attacks on the American warships? You know, though their nasty aircraft carriers are quite large but they are difficult to hit if one does see them double! For had Japan prevailed the movies of Akira Kurosawa would have been shown in the cinemas and not their dull and cheap American copies! One does sometimes not even recognize the theft and is reminded of it only by the critics.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 year ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar long
tsubaki248 1 year ago
@tsubaki248: I beg your pardon, but what is long here? My comment? It has only 500 characters; so I am a bit confused about the remark.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 year ago
Such a classic. Thousands of dollars in CGI can't beat this rawness. I wish they still made films like this about tormented heroes and characters that reflected the real human qualities of people back then.
elguapotetigre 1 year ago 2
@elguapotetigre Japanese movie producer also try to make film `Jidaigeki` or Old time movie like realistically today. But No one like Kurosawa`s films. Oh well ,,,,,
japaneselilly 1 year ago
Am I the only one who thinks Mifune is very handsome? I love this movie.
aeofan 1 year ago
@aeofan nope...
raphmaster23 1 year ago
wonderful movie !!! awsome !!!
poroshnyj 1 year ago
白黒映画だから黒澤映画見たくないって言ってる人たちに見せたいな～～
knight1719721 1 year ago 2
that is the single most badass thing i've ever seen. I actually just teared a little.
heatedfrost 1 year ago
"Didn't I tell you? Six men weren't enough."
;-)
viciousmaniac 1 year ago
How can anyone put Clint in the same bucket with Toshiro? Toshiro has fire and passion in his acting, his movements...Clint is a one-note broomstick. If they were together side by side in a movie, who would pay any attention to a wooden gunslinger?
emidore 1 year ago
This is the man that was the inspiration for Clint Eastwood's character in the Fistful of Dollars trilogy.
I don't know if Clint & Toshiro have ever been in the same movie together, but I would've loved to have seen Toshiro as the Samurai and Clint as the Nameless Cowboy fighting side by side. Or an East meets West extrrrrrrrravaganza. That children is what we call AWESOME.
ninjawraith17 1 year ago
@ninjawraith17 Watch Red Sun, Toshiro Mifune and Charles Bronson side by side.
Z0mb3hHunt3r 1 year ago
@Z0mb3hHunt3r
hmmm sounds like that would be a great movie to watch.
ninjawraith17 1 year ago
@Z0mb3hHunt3r sounds . . . BADASS TO THE MAX!!!
codename617 1 year ago
This was probably the best thing I received for christmas last year. One of my fav movies.
streeTkiDwannaBe 1 year ago
Holy Shit ! That scene is so natural. Last Samurai fight scenes look amateur compared to this...
Zahinn 1 year ago
Lol. Imagine a scene:
Mifune makes a mistake in this 'destroying' scene. Kurosowa: "OK, clean it, we're doing it again" xD
I love Mifune, he was, and still is, the best!
TurquiseRaiden 1 year ago
I just watched this last week not bad!!!!
dustinDDGintn 1 year ago
Just got this and Sanjuro on Blu-ray for Kurosawa's 100th bday, picture quality is excellent. I absolutely love this film, it is my favorite Kurosawa film after Shichinin no Samurai.
keikoreo 1 year ago
didnt even take 15 seconds to off 6 dudes...
midgeman18 2 years ago
@midgeman18 AHAHA!
xraidedlok 1 year ago
BAKKA!
morbidchid 2 years ago
toshiro is dead since 97 thou yeah long tive toshiro :)
generalgokhan 2 years ago 21
Such a kick ass scene! Long live Toshiro Mifune! :)
califgirl101 2 years ago 36
@califgirl101 bring him back!
illlite 1 year ago
@califgirl101 i totally agree..the master.
59jimmyb 2 months ago
Mifune rules as always. I just saw Yojimbo, and am waiting for Sanjuro on Netflix. But honestly, Throne of Blood and Seven Samurai are still my favs.
devastateurface 2 years ago
@devastateurface
you can watch now instantly on netflix, i just watched it and...it...is....splendid. ;)
cosmosblue772 2 years ago
@devastateurface Watched Seven Samiurai last nite on TCM! Struck out on watching Yojimbo though! One of my own favorite samurai movies to watch! :)
califgirl101 1 year ago
It was a fistful of dollars. Its a remake of Yojimbo
mkp1188 2 years ago
this reminds me of a fistful of dollars
or was it a few dollars more
TheBlitz1 2 years ago