Excellent!. I believe the year was 1970 and the local PBS TV station was showing a Japanese festival. Mom Dad and myself sat down that week for some true gems. But 2 of the movies made and indilable mark in me. 1. The 7 Samurai 2. The Burmese Harp. Of course there was Hiden Fortress and the other Kurosawa fair but the 7 Samurai? Since then I have been hooked. Misfune performance made an impression as a very young teen. Still there never quite left me.
Thank you very much for your comment! I too saw him first in "Seven samurai" and was so impressed! (but to be fair, I was also impressed by the exceptional Takashi Shimura as the leader of the samurai). Toshiro Mifune loved this role, it was one of his favorite because there was so much of himself in it! The monologue scene is forever in my mind. Nobody could have done what he did, facing the camera, for so long, with so many expressions and emotions. It was bold. If you are interested in Mifune's movies, you can contact me, using the email address in the "about" section of my channel. I'm a collector, and I could share some rare movies with you.
Just want to add that the music was a hit. It was perfectly suited to the scenes you montaged. What an excellent job! Thank you again. I suppose just like his films I will also keep watching your montages, I love them.
These two work so well together. Mifune's performance in Japan's Longest Day is what sold me that their collaboration is truly peak cinema. Also why Kihachi Okamoto is my second favorite Japanese director.
I'm happy that you liked it. It was a lot of work. The next video will be about one of my favorite Kurosawa movies "The hidden fortress", another great role for Toshiro Mifune!
@@Artdesignandcinema Yes, I LOVE that movie! One of the few things I can be grateful to my ex for was introducing me to Toshiro Mifune and Kurosawa movies :)
@@ptanyuh I'm a collector of Toshiro Mifune's movies, as you can imagine by watching my videos. So if you are interested in watching rare movies, sometimes never released outside Japan, you can use the email in the "about" section of this channel. I will be happy to share with you and introduce you to other parts of his amazing career.
@@Artdesignandcinema Okay thanks! Awesome! I'll keep that in mind :) I feel like I have to be in a certain mental place to watch these kinds of movies and maybe I'll feel like it soon :)
Thank you very much! It was a lot of work but I enjoyed every minute. Okamoto is a wonderful director and his cinematography is most of the time absolutely stunning.
I have just finished watching Akage-Red Lion again. It makes me cry. Okamoto was a genius showing simple people's suffering and he had a wonderful help showing that through Mifune Toshiro and the rest of the cast. He always makes us understand that wars and political powers are all corrupt and senseless. Okamoto was not appreciated enough, I would say it is true for Mifune-san, too.
I agree with you. Okamoto was a fantastic director, interested in the human side of his stories. I also love his way of filming, in back and white and in color. His black and white movies are remarquables, from a cinematographic point of view ("Samurai assassin" and "Sword of Doom" in particular), and the colors in his color movies are extremely original (light green , violet, orange, pink in "Red Lion") or very subtle (blue-gray, dark blue, brown, grey in "Zatoichi vs Yojimbo"). Still he was less forgotten than Hiroshi Inagaki, for example.
@@Artdesignandcinema I love the stark black and white in the Sword of Doom and that one fighting scene where Mifune 'kills' 23 in less than 3 minutes, I am not certain now, but I timed it once, is just perfect. His moves and his dark silhouette against the swirling white snow surrounding his fast moving body is true art. There is nothing in cinematography like that. I do not like the film per se, although I agree Nakadai was great with his empty emotionless dark scary eyes and his acting was superb; the film is disturbing and painful. I watched it twice and since then I only watch the scenes with Mifune, the exchange of look between them is mind-blowing. It is one of the 3 films where Mifune does not cut Nakadai down. It was legendary how Nakadai learnt all his sword fights from him and became notable in his samurai roles, later on, too. I was sorry that the documentary: Mifune: The Last samurai, somehow did not reach out to him, to ask him about Mifune. I wonder why. Nakadai is well along in years but he is able and sharp in mind, and he knows Mifune better than many others, who spoke there, I believe. Anyway, Okamoto Kihachi is an overlooked director, compared to Kurosawa and even Ozu. I believe you that Inagaki fares even worse when it comes to recognition. It is such a sad matter. They shaped cinema for the world, not only for Japan, yes, all four of them.
Thank you very much! It is a lot of work to make those videos (this one took 60 hours of work) so I'm happy when they find their audience. If you want to see more of his work, since he was incredibly versatile and could play any role, take a look at my videos about his work with directors Senkichi Taniguchi, Akira Kurosawa and Hiroshi Inagaki, also the video about his first non-japanese movie, "Animas Trujano" (a masterpiece, again) and the two trailers for "Hell in the Pacific" and "Throne of blood".
Thank you! It was pretty hard, yes, since I wanted to add a storm at the beginning, because Toshiro Mifune's characters in Kihachi Okamoto's films are always complex and often tortured characters. I also had to edit the music and to chose carefully the clips to stick to the music. The second part, after 3 minutes, was the most difficult. I wanted that Toshiro Mifune's movements were in tune with the rhythm. I'm pretty happy with the result. But yes, this video took more than 50 hours of work.
Those roles are maybe the best known today but he had many many different roles not related to the samurai. he was always extremely convincing in all of them.
Yes, I do admire him in all his roles, but to me, of all the samurai roles played by other actors no one can match Toshiro Mifune. He is the best. @@Artdesignandcinema
Thank you very much! It's work, yes, but if people, like you, discover something in my videos and enjoy them, then, it's worth it. And, as an aside, what's better than to work, frame by frame, on scenes involving Toshiro Mifune :-) If you haven't seen them, I invite you to watch the last videos, about Mifune's collaboration with directors Senkichi Taniguchi and Hiroshi Inagaki. The Taniguchi video is certainly one of my best works.
Your treatment is powerful. That is not easy to affix to run of the mill UA-cam fare. The musical scoring is outstanding and the editing choices work extremely well to form a meditation on theme. I cannot properly praise the care you’ve taken to assemble these works. I am well impressed. Thank you!
Thank you very much! The next video will be slightly different, with text, photos and video, like the Mifune/Kurosawa video. it should be online on December 24.
@@SedDelMar Hi! I don't know if you come often on the channel but since you like that kind of video, I recommend my last one, about Kurosawa's "Throne of blood". One of Toshiro Mifune's favorite roles and certainly one of his most impressive. Feel free to leave a comment if you like it! The next video will be about "The hidden fortress".
I loved it and the editing is excellent, I think Okamoto who is an excellent filmmaker, got the widest range of Mifune's talent.He was never more smart than in Sword of Doom or cooler than in the Last Gunfight. etc...
Thank you! And I agree with you. People too often just mention Mifune's work with Kurosawa and, indeed, it was incredible work. But they forget other directors like Okamoto or Inagaki and Taniguchi. I will certainly make a video about Okamoto's cinematography. He was so talented both in black and white and in color!
Thank you very much! It's never easy to chose a soundtrack. And yes, I agree with you, Toshiro Mifune would have been a fantastic James Bond, enigmatic, seductive and deadly. In a way, he initiated that kind of role in "The last gunfight" in 1960, so 3 years before Sean Connery's first interpretation of James Bond.
Thank you very much! It was a lot of work but I enjoyed it a lot. If you want to watch other videos about Toshiro Mifune that I consider as my best editing works, please take a look at the video about "Throne of blood", the videos about his collaboration with directors Senkichi Taniguchi, Akira Kurosawa and Hiroshi Inagaki and the trailer for "Hell in the Pacific".
You're welcome to watch the other videos about his collaboration with directors Taniguchi, Inagaki and Kurosawa. The next video will be about his mexican movie, "Animas Trujano". A fantastic movie recently restored in its original cinemascope format and one of Toshiro Mifune's best roles.
Hello! This movie is "The last gunfight", 1960. A very interesting movie with Koji Tsuruta, who was Toshiro Mifune's opponent in the Samurai trilogy (1954-56). In this movie, Toshiro Mifune's character is extremely ambiguous and he chose to show him as nonchalant, quick, sarcastic, mysterious, attractive and deadly. In a way, he invented James Bond, 3 years before the first James Bond movie with Sean Connery. He would have been a fantastic James Bond.
8:24 what movie 🎬 is that? I recalled years ago watching a movie where the guy who killed the emperor and cuts his head off did it so without knowing that the emperor was his real farther.
@@RawWealth_official The movie is "Samurai assassin", a masterpiece by Kihachi Okamoto, from 1965. It was produced by Toshiro Mifune and filmed in his studios (created 3 years before). A fantastic movie with an exceptional cinematography and lots of references in framing to Akira Kurosawa's style. Also one of the most memorable roles of Toshiro Mifune.
Thank you! He had many different roles, he even was Cyrano for the movie "Samurai saga" by Hiroshi Inagaki in 1959. And probably the best actor in the extremely difficult role of Cyrano de Bergerac, the french swordman and writer from 17th century. He was very versatile and always bold in his choice of roles.
Excellent!. I believe the year was 1970 and the local PBS TV station was showing a Japanese festival. Mom Dad and myself sat down that week for some true gems. But 2 of the movies made and indilable mark in me. 1. The 7 Samurai 2. The Burmese Harp. Of course there was Hiden Fortress and the other Kurosawa fair but the 7 Samurai? Since then I have been hooked. Misfune performance made an impression as a very young teen. Still there never quite left me.
Thank you very much for your comment! I too saw him first in "Seven samurai" and was so impressed! (but to be fair, I was also impressed by the exceptional Takashi Shimura as the leader of the samurai). Toshiro Mifune loved this role, it was one of his favorite because there was so much of himself in it! The monologue scene is forever in my mind. Nobody could have done what he did, facing the camera, for so long, with so many expressions and emotions. It was bold. If you are interested in Mifune's movies, you can contact me, using the email address in the "about" section of my channel. I'm a collector, and I could share some rare movies with you.
Just want to add that the music was a hit. It was perfectly suited to the scenes you montaged. What an excellent job! Thank you again. I suppose just like his films I will also keep watching your montages, I love them.
Thank you! I'm very happy that you like the videos.
I rewatching it 10 times. His intersity is fearsome.
These two work so well together. Mifune's performance in Japan's Longest Day is what sold me that their collaboration is truly peak cinema. Also why Kihachi Okamoto is my second favorite Japanese director.
I have had a tiring day at school and it was just wonderful to come home and see this montage. Thank you so much, I feel better.
Thank you for your comment! I'm happy that you like that video. :-)
This one is great too! Thank you :)
I'm happy that you liked it. It was a lot of work. The next video will be about one of my favorite Kurosawa movies "The hidden fortress", another great role for Toshiro Mifune!
@@Artdesignandcinema Yes, I LOVE that movie! One of the few things I can be grateful to my ex for was introducing me to Toshiro Mifune and Kurosawa movies :)
@@ptanyuh I'm a collector of Toshiro Mifune's movies, as you can imagine by watching my videos. So if you are interested in watching rare movies, sometimes never released outside Japan, you can use the email in the "about" section of this channel. I will be happy to share with you and introduce you to other parts of his amazing career.
@@Artdesignandcinema Okay thanks! Awesome! I'll keep that in mind :) I feel like I have to be in a certain mental place to watch these kinds of movies and maybe I'll feel like it soon :)
@@ptanyuh You're welcome :-)
Such beautiful clips!!
Thank you very much! It was a lot of work but I enjoyed every minute. Okamoto is a wonderful director and his cinematography is most of the time absolutely stunning.
I have just finished watching Akage-Red Lion again. It makes me cry. Okamoto was a genius showing simple people's suffering and he had a wonderful help showing that through Mifune Toshiro and the rest of the cast. He always makes us understand that wars and political powers are all corrupt and senseless. Okamoto was not appreciated enough, I would say it is true for Mifune-san, too.
I agree with you. Okamoto was a fantastic director, interested in the human side of his stories. I also love his way of filming, in back and white and in color. His black and white movies are remarquables, from a cinematographic point of view ("Samurai assassin" and "Sword of Doom" in particular), and the colors in his color movies are extremely original (light green , violet, orange, pink in "Red Lion") or very subtle (blue-gray, dark blue, brown, grey in "Zatoichi vs Yojimbo"). Still he was less forgotten than Hiroshi Inagaki, for example.
@@Artdesignandcinema I love the stark black and white in the Sword of Doom and that one fighting scene where Mifune 'kills' 23 in less than 3 minutes, I am not certain now, but I timed it once, is just perfect. His moves and his dark silhouette against the swirling white snow surrounding his fast moving body is true art. There is nothing in cinematography like that.
I do not like the film per se, although I agree Nakadai was great with his empty emotionless dark scary eyes and his acting was superb; the film is disturbing and painful. I watched it twice and since then I only watch the scenes with Mifune, the exchange of look between them is mind-blowing. It is one of the 3 films where Mifune does not cut Nakadai down. It was legendary how Nakadai learnt all his sword fights from him and became notable in his samurai roles, later on, too.
I was sorry that the documentary: Mifune: The Last samurai, somehow did not reach out to him, to ask him about Mifune. I wonder why. Nakadai is well along in years but he is able and sharp in mind, and he knows Mifune better than many others, who spoke there, I believe.
Anyway, Okamoto Kihachi is an overlooked director, compared to Kurosawa and even Ozu. I believe you that Inagaki fares even worse when it comes to recognition. It is such a sad matter. They shaped cinema for the world, not only for Japan, yes, all four of them.
Amazing 👏 Now I'm pumped up to watch more of his movies 🎬.
Thank you very much! It is a lot of work to make those videos (this one took 60 hours of work) so I'm happy when they find their audience. If you want to see more of his work, since he was incredibly versatile and could play any role, take a look at my videos about his work with directors Senkichi Taniguchi, Akira Kurosawa and Hiroshi Inagaki, also the video about his first non-japanese movie, "Animas Trujano" (a masterpiece, again) and the two trailers for "Hell in the Pacific" and "Throne of blood".
Came to edit my comment but I could not leave without watcing it again..
😁
You put your soul in this video
Thank you! It was pretty hard, yes, since I wanted to add a storm at the beginning, because Toshiro Mifune's characters in Kihachi Okamoto's films are always complex and often tortured characters. I also had to edit the music and to chose carefully the clips to stick to the music. The second part, after 3 minutes, was the most difficult. I wanted that Toshiro Mifune's movements were in tune with the rhythm. I'm pretty happy with the result. But yes, this video took more than 50 hours of work.
素晴らしい編集♪
ナイスチョイス♪
Thank you!!
I like him best as a Samurai. My favorite actor
Those roles are maybe the best known today but he had many many different roles not related to the samurai. he was always extremely convincing in all of them.
Yes, I do admire him in all his roles, but to me, of all the samurai roles played by other actors no one can match Toshiro Mifune. He is the best. @@Artdesignandcinema
great, thank you!
I'm happy that you like the video. Another one with lesser known fights (but still very impressive fights) will be soon online.
@@Artdesignandcinema as always looking forward to it.
Wonderful! Phenomenal work. 💕💕
Thank you very much! It's work, yes, but if people, like you, discover something in my videos and enjoy them, then, it's worth it. And, as an aside, what's better than to work, frame by frame, on scenes involving Toshiro Mifune :-) If you haven't seen them, I invite you to watch the last videos, about Mifune's collaboration with directors Senkichi Taniguchi and Hiroshi Inagaki. The Taniguchi video is certainly one of my best works.
Your treatment is powerful.
That is not easy to affix to run of the mill UA-cam fare. The musical scoring is outstanding and the editing choices work extremely well to form a meditation on theme.
I cannot properly praise the care you’ve taken to assemble these works.
I am well impressed.
Thank you!
Thank you very much! The next video will be slightly different, with text, photos and video, like the Mifune/Kurosawa video. it should be online on December 24.
@@Artdesignandcinema Thanks, really looking forward to it!
@@SedDelMar Hi! I don't know if you come often on the channel but since you like that kind of video, I recommend my last one, about Kurosawa's "Throne of blood". One of Toshiro Mifune's favorite roles and certainly one of his most impressive. Feel free to leave a comment if you like it! The next video will be about "The hidden fortress".
I loved it and the editing is excellent, I think Okamoto who is an excellent filmmaker, got the widest range of Mifune's talent.He was never more smart than in Sword of Doom or cooler than in the Last Gunfight. etc...
Thank you! And I agree with you. People too often just mention Mifune's work with Kurosawa and, indeed, it was incredible work. But they forget other directors like Okamoto or Inagaki and Taniguchi. I will certainly make a video about Okamoto's cinematography. He was so talented both in black and white and in color!
He is riding horse better then the cowboy and in perfect James Bond. I love the soundtrack.
Thank you very much! It's never easy to chose a soundtrack. And yes, I agree with you, Toshiro Mifune would have been a fantastic James Bond, enigmatic, seductive and deadly. In a way, he initiated that kind of role in "The last gunfight" in 1960, so 3 years before Sean Connery's first interpretation of James Bond.
Great editing!
Thank you very much! It was a lot of work but I enjoyed it a lot. If you want to watch other videos about Toshiro Mifune that I consider as my best editing works, please take a look at the video about "Throne of blood", the videos about his collaboration with directors Senkichi Taniguchi, Akira Kurosawa and Hiroshi Inagaki and the trailer for "Hell in the Pacific".
Très bonne vidéo
Merci!
I must know what these films are...the only one I recognize is Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo...
..oh yes, and Sword Of Doom...
Oh good, a listing at the end...
I will make a list of each clip in the next days.
You're welcome to watch the other videos about his collaboration with directors Taniguchi, Inagaki and Kurosawa. The next video will be about his mexican movie, "Animas Trujano". A fantastic movie recently restored in its original cinemascope format and one of Toshiro Mifune's best roles.
Is the movie at 8:27 Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo?
Yes it is!😊
the was the mostest cat there ever was.
Presse de la voir
Merci de votre commentaire Tom, ça fait plaisir!
What movie at 2:22?
Hello! This movie is "The last gunfight", 1960. A very interesting movie with Koji Tsuruta, who was Toshiro Mifune's opponent in the Samurai trilogy (1954-56). In this movie, Toshiro Mifune's character is extremely ambiguous and he chose to show him as nonchalant, quick, sarcastic, mysterious, attractive and deadly. In a way, he invented James Bond, 3 years before the first James Bond movie with Sean Connery. He would have been a fantastic James Bond.
8:24 what movie 🎬 is that? I recalled years ago watching a movie where the guy who killed the emperor and cuts his head off did it so without knowing that the emperor was his real farther.
@@Artdesignandcinema Thank you so much.
@@RawWealth_official The movie is "Samurai assassin", a masterpiece by Kihachi Okamoto, from 1965. It was produced by Toshiro Mifune and filmed in his studios (created 3 years before). A fantastic movie with an exceptional cinematography and lots of references in framing to Akira Kurosawa's style. Also one of the most memorable roles of Toshiro Mifune.
@@RawWealth_official Samurai Assassin I think.
i dnever knew Toshiro was in a movie with Zatoichi ,the blind sword's man ,Awesome!
Thank you! He had many different roles, he even was Cyrano for the movie "Samurai saga" by Hiroshi Inagaki in 1959. And probably the best actor in the extremely difficult role of Cyrano de Bergerac, the french swordman and writer from 17th century. He was very versatile and always bold in his choice of roles.