Word: toshiro
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...ages and types. There are jitterbugging kids at a USO dance (Treat Williams, Bobby DiCicco), trigger-happy soldiers and pilots (Dan Aykroyd, Warren Gates, John Be lushi), middle-aged suburbanites (Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton), and stray German, American and Japanese commanding officers (Christopher Lee, Robert Stack, Toshiro Mifune). Such oldtime Hollywood character actors as Lionel Stander, Elisha Cook and Slim Pickens also fly by along the film's manic way. Indeed, 1941's players are so numerous and di verse that one almost expects cameos by the Dead End Kids or maybe Anna May Wong...
Yojimbo. This is one of the funniest of Akiro Kursawa's Samurai films, telling the story of a Samurai (Toshiro Mifune) who offers his services to each of two factions warring in village. After some reversals, he of course ends up helping the side that deserves his skills. The film served as a model for the first block-buster spaghetti western, Fistful of Dollars, which brought Clint Eastwood to fame...
...riot breaks out between native whites and Chicano zoot suiters, and General Joseph Stilwell-yes, the General Joseph Stilwell (Robert Stack)-is in charge of restoring order. Meantime, a periscope, looking suspiciously like the snout of a shark, pokes out of the Pacific, and a submarine commanded by Toshiro Mifune slithers toward shore. Oh, my God! The Japanese! Then . . . but Spielberg refuses to reveal the rest, other than to say he hopes it is funny. In other words, Animal House meets John Wayne, and just about any war flick...
...separating the antagonists when they launch their planes, the sickening speed with which the flames spread when they find their targets. But there is no real sense of the flow of fortune in the battle - the camera shies away from any at tempt at analysis. The Japanese, led by Toshiro Mifune, are neatly dressed and stoic (a useful virtue if most of your dialogue has to be dubbed into English...
...people than incite crime. His store accommodates clientele ranging from derelicts to gentlemen in Brooks Brothers suits, and sales are brisk during the day, when people feel safe in the Zone. The men aren't particularly discriminating. They seem to be interested in the simplistic tomes on Hitler and Toshiro, sensational descriptions of sodomy and pederasty, and devices for simulating sex when a complete partner isn't handy. They don't even complain when the peep shows they expected to see for a single quarter stop abruptly midway through the reel. The women who venture in tend to buy vibrators...