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...BORN. To Toshiro Mifune, 62, ruggedly handsome film actor often referred to as the John Wayne of Japan (Rashomon, 1950; The Seven Samurai, 1954; and the TV movie Shōgun, 1980); and Mika Kitagawa, 33, his longtime girlfriend and sometime movie actress: his third child, her first (he is still married to his first wife); a girl; in Tokyo. Name: Mika...
...Barbarosa and The Challenge trace the search for a spiritual father who will teach the male lessons of energy and discipline. The films mean to display these virtues as well and get a head start toward that goal by casting, as the mentors, Willie Nelson and, in The Challenge, Toshiro Mifune, two sternly noble faces worthy of being carved on any cinematic Rushmore. Each man carries an aura of stolid grace and flashing moral strength...
Yojimbo [Coolidge Corner]: Toshiro Mifune, playing John Belushi, rides into town with a samurai sword for hire. He meets clint Eastwood, who plays an American actor who acts in spaghetti westerns based on Japanese classics. Mifune says "This film is better than anything you'll ever do" and Eastwood replies "Yeah, but more people will see my movies and they'll think my plots were original. You'll wind up announcing winners on the Emmy Awards." Mifune sighs in agreement and shows Eastwood how to spin a six-shooter. Eastwood show Mifune how to open a beer can with...
more accomplished corporate executioners of modern times, learning yet another technique for beheading underlings? Nope. The veteran shoman-warrior, who has disposed of two CBS presidents in the past five years, was just cutting up with Actor Toshiro Mifune (Tom! Tom! Tom!), 61, during a recent visit to Japan. On location in Kyoto with the cast of The Equals, a CBS movie due out next year, Paley cast an experienced samureye on the set before joining Mifune in light swordplay. Affecting a traditional shogun stance, the CBS chairman cried: "Critics beware...
With prosperity, Nolo has moved to larger quarters in a converted clock factory but retains its raffish, blue-jeans style. The staff, which works amid cantaloupe-crate bookshelves and suspended Chinese kites, has expanded to 17 (including an artist-lawyer, an anthropologist, and the stand-in for Toshiro Mifune in the TV series Shogun). To keep pace with changing laws, they regularly issue updated editions, and recently published a sort of Whole Earth Catalog of the law called The People's Law Review...