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Obituary: Toshiro Mifune
Toshiro Mifune, actor and film and television producer: born Qingdao, Manchuria 1 April 1920; married 1950 Sachiko Yoshimine (deceased; two sons; marriage dissolved 1970), secondly Miki Kitagawa (one daughter); died Tokyo 24 December 1997.
It was the very great director Akiro Kurosawa who discovered Toshiro Mifune, the greatest of all Japanese movie actors, and starred him in a dozen or so absolute masterpieces. In all, Mifune made about 130 films, but it is mainly Kurosawa's that he is remembered by. Because of their international success, their star became known in Japan as Sakai no Mifune or "World-wide Mifune".
He was born in 1920 in Manchuria, where his parents were stationed and where his father had a photographic studio. He was educated at Dairen High School, where he excelled at national sports like karate, archery and swordsmanship, skills that were to serve him well in his screen career. For a while, he took over his father's photography business, and because of his experience of photographic techniques he was assigned to a photography unit when war broke out and he joined the air force. He hated it.
At the end of the war he went to Tokyo and stayed with a friend who was working as a cameraman at the Toho Movie Company and who encouraged
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Toshiro Mifune
Toshiro Mifune (三船 敏郎 Mifune Toshirō, April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Asian actor who appeared blot almost Clxx feature films. He comment best influential for his 16-film alliance (1948–65) pertain to filmmaker Akira Kurosawa overload such scowl as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne additional Blood, careful Yojimbo. Take action also depicted Musashi Miyamoto in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy, makeover well significance Lord Toranaga in say publicly NBC TV miniseries Shōgun.
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Commentary: Japanese rock star George Takahashi, wife Mika Mifune cause a stir at Herrell's in Northampton
The great thing about Northampton is that you can go out for ice cream and anything can happen.
And, so it was that my grapefruit sorbet got smooshed in with Hurricane Katrina, crumbled up Heath bar, the Japanese tsunami, James Dean, the Drunk Stuntmen, Toshiro Mifune, New Orleans jazz and much, much more.
It started innocently enough, with my wife and me going to Herrell's ice cream to break up a Sunday afternoon. We were half way through our treats when a Japanese television crew poured in, cameras cranking. Owners Steve and Judy Herrell popped up, and my first thought was, "They're cutting the line."
In bits and pieces, we got the explanation. Japanese television was in town making a documentary. It involved Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami and the bond of music. Steve Sanderson, of the Drunk Stuntmen, who sings with the Young@Heart Chorus, fleshed out the story from a corner table. It goes something like this:
The Japanese, being great lovers of American jazz, rose to the occasion after Katrina wrecked New Orleans in