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Glasgow Film Festival · 2017

Glasgow Film Festival 2017

Mifune: The Last Samurai

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6 films · 4 reviews

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Mifune: The Last Samurai

Documentary about the on and offscreen life of the Japanese movie star.

(Country: US, Japan; Year: 2015; Director: Steven Okazaki; Writer: Stuart Galbraith IV, Steven Okazaki; Stars: Wataru Akashi, Kyôko Kagawa, Takeshi Katô, Hisao Kurosawa, Shirô Mifune, Toshirô Mifune, Haruo Nakajima, Sadao Nakajima, Yôsuke Natsuki, Terumi Niki, Teruyo Nogami, Keanu Reeves, Tadao Sato, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg)

Rashomon

Review preview for Rashomon

Even now, the hairs rise at the back of the neck.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
Four separate versions of a death in the forest.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1950; Director: Akira Kurosawa; Writer: Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, based on a short story and novel by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda, Fumiko Honma, Daisuke Katô)

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Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjûrô)

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The film concludes with what is probably the most influential special effect in the history of cinema.

Donald Munro · 4.5 out of 5
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1962; Director: Akira Kurosawa; Writer: Ryûzô Kikushima, Hideo Oguni; Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi)

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Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)

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It's easy to forget that beyond its huge influence it is also hugely entertaining.

Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
A village enlists a group of samurai to defend them from bandits.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1954; Director: Akira Kurosawa; Writer: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni; Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daisuke Katô, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Kosugi, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Inaba, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kuninori Kôdô, Eijirô Tôno)

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Stray Dog (Nora Inu)

A rookie detective is desperate to recover his honour by hunting down the pickpocket who tole his pistol.

(Year: 1949; Director: Akira Kurosawa; Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji)

Yojimbo

Review preview for Yojimbo

Kurosawa's masterful synthesis doesn't stop with the script. He weaves a late Edo period samurai film, in its painstaking historic detail, into modernity.

Donald Munro · 5 out of 5
A mysterious ronin finds his services are popular in a town where two gangs are trying to wipe each other out.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1961; Director: Akira Kurosawa; Writer: Akira Kurosawa; Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai)

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