Toshiro Mifune-- a true Japanese bad-ass. In light of recent events in Japan, I found myself watching a lot of his work...
His qualities were best exemplified in the films of master director Akira Kurosawa, such as Seven Samurai, Rashomon, High and Low, Yojimbo (which was remade by Sergio Leone as Fistful of Dollars), Sanjuro, and many more (he appeared in over 150 films in his career).
Here's a montage I found of him hurting people and looking like a bad ass...
Sanjuro is a personal fav. I fall asleep to it many evenings...not that it's boring, it's just that the pace of the foreign language dialogue is extremely relaxing in the film.
Bold and expressive with seemingly little effort, not so unlike American bad-asses like Clint Eastwood and Humphrey Bogart (who's biography, Tough without a Gun, by Stefan Kanfer is totally rad from what I've skimmed of it..).
Maybe Mifune can be called tough without a sword...
2 comments:
At the end of Yojimbo Mifune kills 13 people in 13 seconds.
joseph,
that's what i'm talking about! makes you think about how fragile life is...and how rad mifune is.
you seen hardboiled? those guys killed A LOT OF PEOPLE (period). That was good too.
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