Synopsis
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
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Cast
- Keanu ReevesSelf - Narrator (voice)
- Kyōko KagawaSelf - Actress
- Yōko TsukasaSelf - Actress
- Yoshio TsuchiyaSelf - Actor
- Takeshi KatōSelf - Actor
- Kaoru YachigusaSelf - Actress
- Yōsuke NatsukiSelf - Actor
- Terumi NikiSelf - Actress
- Steven SpielbergSelf - Filmmaker
- Martin ScorseseSelf - Filmmaker
Recommendations
- 80
TheWrap
The real accomplishment of Mifune: The Last Samurai, and perhaps of any successful documentary about cinema history, is that it makes you want to run out and see the movies all over again. - 75
The A.V. Club
Mifune: The Last Samurai is less a comprehensive overview of the actor’s life than it is an analysis of what that life meant. - 75
RogerEbert.com
What the movie is very good at revealing and expanding upon is how this reluctant actor became such a masterful one. - 75
Movie Nation
Even if it is too brief and leaves too much out to be “definitive,” it serves up heaping helpings of Mifune’s film work and bits of home movies and the like to create a fascinating man-behind the stoic face/samurai icon below-the-topknot portrait of Mifune. - 70
The New York Times
It’s a brisk and energetic primer for those who don’t know his movies or are ready to watch them again. And it doubles as a history of the chanbara (sword fighting) genre, providing an opportunity to sample clips from seldom-seen or partially lost silent films. - 67
The Film Stage
Mifune: The Last Samurai, the well-assembled documentary on the life of actor Toshirô Mifune, the long-time Akira Kurosawa collaborator, should be a worthy introduction to one of Japanese cinema’s greatest icons, if a little light on more revelatory findings. - 50
Slant Magazine
In many ways, Toshirô Mifune the man remains just as mysterious after watching Steven Okazaki's film as he was before. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The subject is a rich one, but the film simply isn’t incisive enough.
