Toshiro Mifune. Japan's Great NAtional Badass Icon. Same as Bruce Lee is to China, Clint Eastwood to America and Michael Caine is to UK. Long live Japan's Greatest Badass!
Thanks for this tribute. "The very embodiment of Japan". Japan would be flattered. BTW in Osaka, Mifune Toshiro spoke to our English language grade school class. He walked in dressed in a suit and was a handsome man, even though we were kids he dressed well for us and I remember his polished black leather shoes like I saw him yesterday. He seemed to tower. Smiled to us and spoke pretty good English, even though he had an accent.
As if the Hollywood footpath, where people walk on your name, is the pinnacle of recognition. His recognition of his superb acting is in the appreciation of generations of viewers of his splendid work and of the directors who told him what to do and when to do it, the little things, like the shoulder shrug, I hope were his.
@snipper1ie - *Akira Kurosawa* told his actors to make some action/motion for their characters to repeat so even from a distance or behind you’d know who they were. *Mifune* came up with the shoulder shrug at that direction yeah... such incredibly good filmmaking !!
Also my favorite actor. After I watched all Kurosawa's films, I was like (re: Mifune), "Jesus, that guy could make eating a tunafish sandwich look fucking intense" Best ass kicking man among men of the 20th century. AND HE DID IT WITH CLASS! Rambo isn't fit to wipe his ass. Chuck Norris apologizes to Toshiro Mifune every day he wakes up. Godzilla left Japan in the 60s because he was intimidated by Mifune.
One of my all time favorite video's, this always puts me in a better frame of mind. Toshiro is the Man......dude really could handle a sword. Some of the moves he makes are truelly sublime. Choreographed or not, his footwork and technique are very impressive.
One of the very best videos on UA-cam. This is what I show people who have become frustrated with the sorry state of tribute videos in general, and it never fails to impress and inspire. Subject (Mifune!), music, scene selection, editing arrangement...every choice involved in creating this was the right one.
I love that look he gives at 2:06 . It’s in Sword of Blood and it’s given to the villain protagonist, who had been an invincible psychopath until that moment. After that he just about completely breaks down. Evil mind ,evil sword indeed
I saw it titled as Sword of Doom, but I agree with you there. Both had kickass fight scenes, what a duel could've been if Ryunosuke didn't freeze (no pun intended). Why didn't they make the sequel, damn it...
Wonderful to see these tributes to Mifune. He truly deserves the recognition. One aspect of his life that he seemed to downplay was that his mother's family was samurai (his grandfather who lived with the family when Mifune was a child, was a retired samurai) But it certainly came through in these films. One of his distinguished aikido teachers, Yoshio Sugino called Mifune one of the best students he had had - that Mifune had a natural talent. He was the 'real thing'.
Also a mention are the scenes from: SWORD OF DOOM with Tatsuya Nakadai in this good video of the work of Toshiro Mifune. Those scenes are the snow bound fighting where Mifune says he was forced to kill honorable samurai like dogs while Nakadai looks transfixed wide eyed at the slaughter.
I want to thank the editor of this footage for providing one of the best examples of my favorite actor in action, and putting it to music that says exactly the right thing = everyone else sucks and will die if they are on screen with him.
This is one of the earliest videos I saw on UA-cam and I still get an incredible rush from watching it!!! I can't explain how f**king much this video moves me. It makes me want to weep! Bless you
I saw my first Mifune/Kurosawa film in about 1964. I have been a fan ever since. Mifune's physicality was precise and compelling. He imposed himelf on camera and your eye was always drawn to hm. He took his role as an ambasador to the Samurai era very seriously. An oddity in his accomplishment was a film he made with Charles Bronson (who he tossed around) and one with Lee Marvin in which he only spoke Japanese and Marvin only spoke English.
@1:30, this bit of dialogue is brilliant, they go on to challenge him to show his skill, thinking to kill him and he responds "are you sure? it'll hurt.."
Great, great , great sword badasssssss...................................::))) I love it !!! Toshiro Mifune, one of the best fighters, one of the best actors. Thank you for this post.
When I was a kid, my mom took me to all these movies. ❤️😍❤️ I could never keep up with reading the words on the screen, but I really enjoyed them. The ghost ones are really spooky! Lol
Dude I'm straight and I'd marry the Mifune! He's so bad-ass he needs a star and the walk of fame! Long Live the Wolf. Thank you Kurasawa for giving us this masterful actor! Throne of Blood for ever!
I forget the name of the movie but that's is one of the best duels on film. They just build and build that tension and then BOOM it's one strike and over.
Great tribute nice to see sword of doom in there my fav samurai movie toshshiro allmost quivers with power in the snow scene great track by the heavy as well thx for posting
Fucking awesome! thanks so much for making this mix! 5/5 for full frame rate capturing all the controlled rage and great stunt work Mifune possessed in all his movie fights...
I remember the first time I saw 2:45. I freeze-framed that and watched it back and forth like ten times to make sure I understood what he did. So frickin cool.
Bruce Lee really brought his own martial arts to America. He didn't assign himself to one style. He took bits and pieces from all styles and trained his body to be able to use them effectively.
I think I need to UNDERSCORE something that same scene with Mifune ducking and backing away from those Horses is Crazy, he could have been ran other and killed, WOW close call,,, it starts @ 2:51 man Mifune is a BAMF!!!!!! LEGEND
Mifune Toshiro, I heard him speak when I was a kid growing up in Japan. His English was really good, heavily accented but understandable. He was in a well-fitting suit, shiny black shoes, he stood straight, his eyes were steady, he had a mustache and goatee. Really cool dude.
Nothing coming out of Hollywood can compare to the likes of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune...the magnificent seven to spaghetti westerns to star wars were inspired by Mr. Kurosawa. And Clint Eastwood studied mifune to be a badass
John Brough Kurosawa and the Japanese chose the real american badass( not Eastwood) Charlie Bronson to Co-Star with Mifune in a Western. And unlike most ACTORS Bronson actually had real life ass kicking skills.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT. BRILLIANTLY ABSOLUTE....PLEASE DO RASHOMON ! I'M SITTING HERE TRYING TO FORMULATE JUST WHAT T.M. HAS MEANT TO ME ...CAN'T PUT IT INTO WORDS THANKYOU.
In Yojimbo, I like how they show a small army of well armed killers on one side of the street, and Toshiro Mifune on the other... and it looks like a fair fight.
And at the end, Tatsuya Nakadai as little timid Unosuke, with his Smith and Wesson Model 1 Revolver. It's great that in the film The Warriors, they added the knife throwing scene in the standoff on the beach.
Fun fact: the scene in Yojimbo with the leaf was filmed in reverse, they stuck the knife into the leaf and then pulled it away with a string and watched the leaf flutter away.
He has the look of a warrior in his eyes, not that I know but still makes me believe ;) I'm not watching a movie, I'm watching a crazy samurai swinging like an Afro !
This was....AWESOME!! Not one person in my life, not one, cares about the genius of Kurosawa or Mifune. It's good to know there are others like me out there.
Toshiro Mifune. Japan's Great NAtional Badass Icon. Same as Bruce Lee is to China, Clint Eastwood to America and Michael Caine is to UK.
Long live Japan's Greatest Badass!
John Constantine ikr
John Doe since when.
John Constantine Yojimbo = fistful of dollars =last man standing
I thought Mr bean was the national icon of the UK
John Constantine KANPAI !!!
Thanks for this tribute. "The very embodiment of Japan". Japan would be flattered. BTW in Osaka, Mifune Toshiro spoke to our English language grade school class. He walked in dressed in a suit and was a handsome man, even though we were kids he dressed well for us and I remember his polished black leather shoes like I saw him yesterday. He seemed to tower. Smiled to us and spoke pretty good English, even though he had an accent.
You met Mifune? Wowwwwwwwwwww. I am freaking jealous. Thats awesome!
Mindblowing, you met him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He was also fluent in Chinese and in fact was born in China of Japanese parents.
Love this
That was Mifune at full gallop with a real sword in hand... DUDE WAS NO JOKE...
He's finally getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!
As if the Hollywood footpath, where people walk on your name, is the pinnacle of recognition. His recognition of his superb acting is in the appreciation of generations of viewers of his splendid work and of the directors who told him what to do and when to do it, the little things, like the shoulder shrug, I hope were his.
@snipper1ie - *Akira Kurosawa* told his actors to make some action/motion for their characters to repeat so even from a distance or behind you’d know who they were. *Mifune* came up with the shoulder shrug at that direction yeah... such incredibly good filmmaking !!
Who cares what Hollywood thinks
@byob772 twice on Sundays with an unlubricated pineapple.
Also my favorite actor. After I watched all Kurosawa's films, I was like (re: Mifune), "Jesus, that guy could make eating a tunafish sandwich look fucking intense" Best ass kicking man among men of the 20th century. AND HE DID IT WITH CLASS! Rambo isn't fit to wipe his ass. Chuck Norris apologizes to Toshiro Mifune every day he wakes up. Godzilla left Japan in the 60s because he was intimidated by Mifune.
Lol
Toshiro Mifune: the best actor that walked the earth.
RudeBoyRocket he could do “over the top like no other. On the edge acting , a GIANT
He even interpreted an indigenous Mexican 👌😍
🙏🙏Amen to that!🙏🙏
My favorite of all.
I love Toshiro Mifune.
All japanese too.
Mifune was the greatest!
Truly one with uncanny skills ,,, especially as miyamoto musushi ,,,the man was extraordinary!
Yes, a Great edit. Kurosawa wrote how he finally found a way to keep Mifune from dominating every scene................Keep him Out of the scene.
What a presence this man had....legend
One of my all time favorite video's, this always puts me in a better frame of mind. Toshiro is the Man......dude really could handle a sword. Some of the moves he makes are truelly sublime. Choreographed or not, his footwork and technique are very impressive.
One of the very best videos on UA-cam. This is what I show people who have become frustrated with the sorry state of tribute videos in general, and it never fails to impress and inspire. Subject (Mifune!), music, scene selection, editing arrangement...every choice involved in creating this was the right one.
Thanks very much for your kind words!
+Yogo Dagorah ?The ending was especially appropriate.
Good work
Yogo Dagorah YES
Masculinity at highest level! So hot!
Agreed. Effortlessly alpha male :D
agreed
They could be a girl...
I love that look he gives at 2:06 . It’s in Sword of Blood and it’s given to the villain protagonist, who had been an invincible psychopath until that moment. After that he just about completely breaks down.
Evil mind ,evil sword indeed
I saw it titled as Sword of Doom, but I agree with you there. Both had kickass fight scenes, what a duel could've been if Ryunosuke didn't freeze (no pun intended). Why didn't they make the sequel, damn it...
@@arkantos2227 Ryunosuke had no chance. That's why he froze!
Wonderful to see these tributes to Mifune. He truly deserves the recognition. One aspect of his life that he seemed to downplay was that his mother's family was samurai (his grandfather who lived with the family when Mifune was a child, was a retired samurai) But it certainly came through in these films. One of his distinguished aikido teachers, Yoshio Sugino called Mifune one of the best students he had had - that Mifune had a natural talent. He was the 'real thing'.
Also a mention are the scenes from: SWORD OF DOOM with Tatsuya Nakadai in this good video of the work of Toshiro Mifune. Those scenes are the snow bound fighting where Mifune says he was forced to kill honorable samurai like dogs while Nakadai looks transfixed wide eyed at the slaughter.
One of the best scenes ever
誰が何と言おうと日本史上最高の俳優だ
attractive, nice-looking, beautiful, pretty, as pretty as a picture, handsome, lovely, gorgeous, captivating, charming, charismatic,
enchanting, appealing
" you guys have such cute faces " lol
aboulabs hahahahaha
The greatest specimen of masculinity ever!
Good god, wasn’t he tho
An awesome tribute to the great Toshiro Mifune.
he can do any role... many variations... the ferocious warrior is only one of them - a drop in the ocean of his acting skills.
I want to thank the editor of this footage for providing one of the best examples of my favorite actor in action, and putting it to music that says exactly the right thing = everyone else sucks and will die if they are on screen with him.
2:47 二人の決闘で、三船敏郎演じる椿三十郎は、極めて実戦的な抜刀と斬撃をしています。スピードが速すぎてわかりにくいですが。刀を抜く時、刀を回転させて刃を下に向けて逆手で抜き、左腕を刀の峰に添て刺しています。刀は脇差しか？あるいはかなり短い大刀でしょう。大刀の規定は現在下限60cm程度なので、これぐらいならあるかな。昔から好きなシーンです。
あと、歩きながら肩をくいってやるだけで格好いいですね。正月などで着物を着ると、つい両手を袖に入れて、肩をこうやってしまいますね。
ハリウッド殿堂入りはめでたいけど、そんな事はなくても三船敏郎は三船敏郎です。
フクロ手にしてあごを撫でる仕草も堪りませんね（笑）。
mat44saigoda thank you so much
mat44saigoda alo like me please
Watch this nearly every day.
Amazing.
This is one of the earliest videos I saw on UA-cam and I still get an incredible rush from watching it!!! I can't explain how f**king much this video moves me. It makes me want to weep! Bless you
Fantastic! Yes, I Adore him & his works as well. This tribute was amazing.
Toshiro Mifune was one of the greatest actors to appear on the silver screen.
I saw my first Mifune/Kurosawa film in about 1964. I have been a fan ever since. Mifune's physicality was precise and compelling. He imposed himelf on camera and your eye was always drawn to hm. He took his role as an ambasador to the Samurai era very seriously. An oddity in his accomplishment was a film he made with Charles Bronson (who he tossed around) and one with Lee Marvin in which he only spoke Japanese and Marvin only spoke English.
I love Toshiro's samurai movies and man you bring the bad ass base to a samurai legend!Thanks for sharing!Totally enjoyed this over and over!
I wish I could go back in time so I can ask him an autograph or take a picture with him.
A Japanese reviewer once referred to Lawrence Olivier and England's Toshiro Mifune
One of the greatest artists ever.
So much screen presence. Awesome.
LMAO! The greatest actor of all time, Mifune and Kurosawa were waaay ahead of their time (James Brown too)!
@1:30, this bit of dialogue is brilliant, they go on to challenge him to show his skill, thinking to kill him and he responds "are you sure? it'll hurt.."
*馬鹿に付ける薬もない。* " _No cure for fools_ " is a Japanese proverb that fit very well into the dialogue for that scene.
" Evil mind, evil sword. "
That goes for firearms too.
A weapon is not a talisman, it doesn't make a man bigger but it can make him worse.
Whats that film?
0:37 do you know anyone else whose swings a katana around on a horse NO, MADAM, YOU DO NOT!
I really liked the portrayals he did...expressive and compassionate, yet strong and unyielding.
Great edit!!!! Mifune is one of the greatest action stars of aaaaall time.
Great, great , great sword badasssssss...................................::))) I love it !!!
Toshiro Mifune, one of the best fighters, one of the best actors. Thank you for this post.
Toshiro mifune best male Japanese actor. !!!
When I was a kid, my mom took me to all these movies. ❤️😍❤️ I could never keep up with reading the words on the screen, but I really enjoyed them. The ghost ones are really spooky! Lol
2:05 ... is just pure and simple KILLER!
Que ator incrível! Sou fã de Tochiro Mifune para sempre.
In 1986 a had privilege to meet him and talk in Tokyo !
One of the best AMVs I've ever seen in my life and you didn't even use any anime. Here's some props for you 11 years later.
Great Compilation of Toshiro Mifune. Thank You.
Real kenjutsu masters treated him as an equal. And, never criticized his form or technique. He was a natural.
I may have seen each of these movies....three or a hundred times. Great video...thanks~!!
Fantastic. Thank you so much for doing this. I will share with old friends who introduced me to Mifune in the 80's
Great actor, great movies, great director, great scenes, great images, great photography.A great man!
Men, I love Toshiro Mifune's and director Akira Kurosawa movies. The synchronization of video and music, It gets me every time.
I love and admire and Honor to Toshiro Mifune.
!!!!!!!! FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!
Thank you. This is a great video. The music mixes so well with the scenes. Mifune is one of the best.
Great compilation, thanx.
He was also great in the mini series "Shogun."
omg omg !.... my favorite song and the favorite actor :D .... what a combo ..... yoo hoooo
Dude I'm straight and I'd marry the Mifune! He's so bad-ass he needs a star and the walk of fame! Long Live the Wolf. Thank you Kurasawa for giving us this masterful actor! Throne of Blood for ever!
Marlon Brando, Dilip Kumar,Toshiro Mifune and Marcelo Mastrionni makes the complete quad of what really acting is all about
The legend!
I forget the name of the movie but that's is one of the best duels on film. They just build and build that tension and then BOOM it's one strike and over.
Aikido this is SO GREAT! THANK YOU FOR POSTING!
Great tribute nice to see sword of doom in there my fav samurai movie toshshiro allmost quivers with power in the snow scene great track by the heavy as well thx for posting
My favorite actor by far. Thanks for this.
The word Badass was invented just for Mifune.
Fucking awesome! thanks so much for making this mix! 5/5 for full frame rate capturing all the controlled rage and great stunt work Mifune possessed in all his movie fights...
Mifune is a God among other actors.This clip made in his honour is just perfect.
... the great Toshiro Mifune. Emotive and exact. Underappreciated actor.
I remember the first time I saw 2:45. I freeze-framed that and watched it back and forth like ten times to make sure I understood what he did. So frickin cool.
Yes, I've watched that repeatedly and can't quite figure it out. It doesn't look real.
The spear duel in "The Hidden Fortress" is pure poetry.
If I've located the correct clip, it's from Sanjuro. To my mind the FINEST stand off in cinema history. Though I am biased!
Great actor. Thank you!
Can't remember the order of the movies, but I included 7 Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Throne of Blood, Hidden Fortress and Sword of Doom.
Great work mate. Well done
Rashomon? Story of Miyamoto Musashi (English title Samurai I, II, and III)? He made of 180 films.
Bruce Lee really brought his own martial arts to America. He didn't assign himself to one style. He took bits and pieces from all styles and trained his body to be able to use them effectively.
I think I need to UNDERSCORE something that same scene with Mifune ducking and backing away from those Horses is Crazy, he could have been ran other and killed, WOW close call,,, it starts @ 2:51 man Mifune is a BAMF!!!!!! LEGEND
my friend love it,love it,love it. A REAL MANLY MAN. Did i say i love it?
excelente convinacion de imágenes y musica, es de los mejores videos que he visto
Mifune Toshiro, I heard him speak when I was a kid growing up in Japan. His English was really good, heavily accented but understandable. He was in a well-fitting suit, shiny black shoes, he stood straight, his eyes were steady, he had a mustache and goatee. Really cool dude.
Hail to the great Toshiro Mifune. His style and performance antics have been copied by many, but he was a league of his own. Monster actor.
Nothing coming out of Hollywood can compare to the likes of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune...the magnificent seven to spaghetti westerns to star wars were inspired by Mr. Kurosawa. And Clint Eastwood studied mifune to be a badass
John Brough Yojimbo =fistful of dollars
John Brough Kurosawa and the Japanese chose the real american badass( not Eastwood) Charlie Bronson to Co-Star with Mifune in a Western. And unlike most ACTORS Bronson actually had real life ass kicking skills.
Greatest actor, greatest band, great! Thanks.
How can this have so few views? This is one of the best Mifune fan vids I've ever seen.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT. BRILLIANTLY ABSOLUTE....PLEASE DO
RASHOMON ! I'M SITTING HERE TRYING TO FORMULATE JUST WHAT T.M.
HAS MEANT TO ME ...CAN'T PUT IT INTO WORDS THANKYOU.
In Yojimbo, I like how they show a small army of well armed killers on one side of the street, and Toshiro Mifune on the other... and it looks like a fair fight.
He is the man, I agree.His grandfather was a samurai, so I guess it was in his blood.
great job so much fun watching with this music
Toshiro mifune era excelente
And at the end, Tatsuya Nakadai as little timid Unosuke, with his Smith and Wesson Model 1 Revolver. It's great that in the film The Warriors, they added the knife throwing scene in the standoff on the beach.
Earth, wind, water and fire. Toshiro Mifune has all of them, and then some.
Awesome job of editing this together. Thanks!
gracias por el video maravillosas escenas de esta gran actor
Fun fact: the scene in Yojimbo with the leaf was filmed in reverse, they stuck the knife into the leaf and then pulled it away with a string and watched the leaf flutter away.
He has the look of a warrior in his eyes, not that I know but still makes me believe ;) I'm not watching a movie, I'm watching a crazy samurai swinging like an Afro !
Please, please, please upload this in HD. It's fucking epic but not enough pixels
THIS IS SO COOL - BIG SALAM FROM BROTHERS FROM MOSCOW!! )) MIFUNE IS THE BEST
One of my favorites...whether Japanese, American or otherwise
Bravo! That was fun! Bien Hecho!
This was....AWESOME!! Not one person in my life, not one, cares about the genius of Kurosawa or Mifune. It's good to know there are others like me out there.