Mifune News

 
Chris Treadway: Chefs cooking up showdown at Pinole business incubator
San Jose Mercury News
Stars Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune both saw service during the war. Marvin was a US Marine in the Pacific, and Mifune was a member of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. Admission is $5, and boarding starts at 6:30 pm on the Red Oak, ...

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TELENOVELA WATCH: Compelling Debut For OJO POR OJO; New Series AMORCITO ...
We Love Soaps
All that's missing is an outsider, the Mifune/Eastwood character the audience gets behind as he serves deadly retribution to both sides. What OJO POR OJO offers instead is its most characteristic telenovela element – a Romeo and Juliet narrative.


 
Austin Chronicle
Arthouse Monthly: The Criterion Collection: Musashi Miyamoto (Samurai I)
Austin Chronicle
Winner of the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film of 1955, this first film in the Samurai trilogy features Mifune as the historical title figure and begins in the year 1600. Review: Marvel's The Avengers Excelsior!

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A modern Danish fable
Sydney Morning Herald
Iben Hjejle offers a wonderful mix of spontaneity and calculation to Liva, and Anders Berthelsen's Kresten has a boyish charm that prevails over the boorish side of the character. A fable in essence, Mifune ranges simple virtues against more worldly ...

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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
101 things all SF kids should do in the city before they grow up
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Order the Bullet Train children's meal at Mifune in Japantown. It comes with cold soba noodles and tempura served on a toy train. (Flickr / Mary Tsao) Zip down the 25-foot tube slide at the Yerba Buena Gardens Play Circle. (Flickr / Ron Rothbart) Glide ...

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Wall Street Journal (blog)
'As a Director, I've Never Had Star Power'
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Mr. Kaufman was in preproduction and had even arranged to cast Toshiro Mifune as the head Klingon when he got a call from his producer. "'We've got problems,' he told me. 'A high-up Paramount executive just decided that there's no future in science ...

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High and Low: Postwar Japan in Black and White at LACMA
LA Weekly
Toshiro Mifune plays a detective obsessed with recovering his stolen gun; he's steeped in feelings of guilt when the firearm sets off a crime spree. Its standout sequence is a lengthy montage with Mifune strolling among the weary inhabitants and back ...