Biography
Toshirō Mifune (April 1, 1920 - December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor who is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema. He was born in Qingdao, China, but was raised in Japan. Mifune's career spanned over 50 years, during which he collaborated extensively with renowned director Akira Kurosawa, creating some of the most iconic films in Japanese cinema. Mifune gained international recognition for his performances in Kurosawa's films, particularly in samurai...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity
2020
as Self (archive footage)
With his grizzled moustache and chiselled features, Charles Bronson is the embodiment of a slightly archaic, brooding and almost reactionary virility....

Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
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.

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
2002
as Self
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).

Kurosawa
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
1998
as Self (archive footage)
John Boorman met Lee Marvin in London when the latter was making The Dirty Dozen and immediately they struck up a friendship. Shortly afterwards they ...

The Making of '1941'
1996
as Self (archive footage)
A non-narrated documentary, told mainly in interviews with the filmmakers, on the making of the cult comedy classic, featuring outtakes, rare behind-t...

Picture Bride
1995
as The Benshi
Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and s...

Deep River
1995
as Tsukada
A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.

Shadow of the Wolf
1992
as Kroomak
In the 1930s, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes perse...

Journey of Honor
1991
as Ieyasu Tokugawa
The son of a besieged Shogun in war-torn 17th century Japan travels to Spain to buy weaponry from the king.

Strawberry Road
1991
as Taoka
Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrate from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural California and start a strawberry farm, slowly integra...

Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
1990
as Nagao Tamekage
Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda clans. Leading up to them was the incredible life ...

Death of a Tea Master
1989
as Rikyu Sen-no
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.

cf Girl
1989
as Shūichirō Hase
The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Takashi Kitajima.

The Demon Comes in Spring
1989
as Kukkune no jî
Island villagers find a young woman and young man swept ashore near their remote village in northeastern Japan. The two have tried to escape the girl'...

Princess from the Moon
1987
as Taketori-no-Miyatsuko
Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter.

The Retired Samurai
1987
as Hikozaemon Ōkubo
Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coaxed out of retirement to save Shogun Iemitsu from ...

Tora-san Goes North
1987
as Junkichi Ueno
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter,...

The Shatterer
1987
as Murai
Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. This was a co-production betwee...

The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai
1986
as Kyūbei Matsufuji
A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind numerous debts and his illegitimate child. Desperate t...

No More God, No More Love
1985
as Kōzō Kanzaki
Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as he makes his way through a succession of dubious j...

The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel
1984
as Fisherman
In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines, ...

Okita Soji: Swordsman of Fire
1984
as Shūsai Kondō

Secret of the Forbidden Valley
1983
A thrilling historical drama in which a ronin played plays an active role in redeeming the name of a man who was put to death for a crime, despite be...

The Women of Osaka Castle
1983
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yomiuri Television and the 30th...

Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass
1983
as Sûrônin Hinoki Sajûrô
Accused of being a spy for a rival clan by Nanbu Clan samurai who then attack him, the 'Lowly Ronin' barely escapes with his life after being shot. N...

Battle Anthem
1983
as Admiral Heihachiro Togo
The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.

Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl
1983
as Sûrônin Rakuyôjûrô
When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they start a farm as ...

Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell
1983
as Sanjuro Hinoki
The "lowly ronin" meets a child who is being chased by men that killed his father before his eyes. Feeling indebted to the child for buying him dinner...

Theater Of Life
1983
as Hyōtarō Aonari
Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.

Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood
1982
as Sanjuro Hinoki
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV ...

Domineering
1982
as Masao Tadokoro
When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.

The Challenge
1982
as Toru Yoshida
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between t...

The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn
1982
After saving a young Lord from an assassination attempt the Lowly Ronin finds that he is now a wanted man! Accused of being a thief by those that trie...

Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2
1982
as Tamon Umei
Brings Shingo face to face against Yagyu Tajima, the Shogun’s fencing instructor in a match that could save a domain near Osaka. Meanwhile Shogun Yos...

Lowly Ronin
1981
as Sanjuro Hinoki
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV ...

The Bushido Blade
1981
as Shogun's Commander
A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sen...

Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 1
1981
as Tamon Umei
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his fa...

Inchon
1981
as Saito-San
Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.

Shogun
1980
as Lord Yoshi Toranaga
In the seventeenth century, a Dutch ship sails the Pacific from the Americas in order to escape the Spanish. Pilot-Major John Blackthorne (Richard Cha...

Port Arthur
1980
as Emperor Meiji
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (...

1941
1979
as Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Onmitsu Doshin: The Edo Secret Police
1979
as Sadanobu Matsudaira
A group of warriors decide to unite to help the oppressed masses. Disguised as ordinary people, they are dedicated to fighting evil till the end.

Onmitsu Doshin: The Edo Secret Police
1979
Associate Producer
A group of warriors decide to unite to help the oppressed masses. Disguised as ordinary people, they are dedicated to fighting evil till the end.

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1979
as Kindaichi of 11th Generation in "The Woman in the Eye"
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known bein...

Winter Kills
1979
as Keith
The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the...

Lord Mito
1978
as Sakuzaemon Okumura
One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose travels around the nation are legendary has made it to...

The Fall of Ako Castle
1978
as Tsuchiya Michinao
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the reve...

Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
1978
as Kosuke Oishi
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

Love and Faith
1978
as Taiko Hideyoshi
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an un...

Shag
1978
as Captain Takeo Murata
Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.

Shag
1978
Executive Producer
Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.

Shogun's Samurai
1978
as Yoshinao Tokugawa
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the sho...

Japanese Godfather: Ambition
1977
as Kosuke Oishi
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.

Proof of the Man
1977
as Yohei Kori
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a Ne...

Midway
1976
as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

Paper Tiger
1975
as Ambassador Kagoyama
A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped ...

Red Sun
1971
as Kuroda Jubei
In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a valuable sword to the President of the United Stat...

Morning for Two
1971
Producer
While Keisuke and Jiro were brothers, the characters of the two were opposite. My older brother Keisuke was a sophomore college graduate, a honest and...

The Militarists
1970
as Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto

The Walking Major
1970
as Kinugasa Tadao
U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambling with U.S. servicemen in order to raise funds to...

Incident at Blood Pass
1970
as Yojimbo
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of ch...

Incident at Blood Pass
1970
Producer
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of ch...

The Ambitious
1970
as Shojiro Goto
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan...

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
1970
as Yojimbo/Sasa
With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merch...

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
1969
as Isami Kondo
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a ne...

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
1969
Producer
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a ne...

Red Lion
1969
as Gonzo
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sa...

Red Lion
1969
Producer
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sa...

Battle of the Japan Sea
1969
as Admiral Heihachiro Togo
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a...

Safari 5000
1969
as Yūichirō Takase
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enl...

Samurai Banners
1969
as Kansuke Yamamoto
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He co...

Samurai Banners
1969
Producer
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He co...

Hell in the Pacific
1968
as Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in ...
The Day the Sun Rose
1968
as Kumaza
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned cust...

Admiral Yamamoto
1968
as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet....

The Sands of Kurobe
1968
as Kitagawa
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of t...

Japan's Longest Day
1967
as War Minister General Korechika Anami
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies...

Samurai Rebellion
1967
as Isaburo Sasahara
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to acce...

Samurai Rebellion
1967
Producer
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to acce...

Grand Prix
1966
as Izō Yamura
The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a serie...
Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions
1966
as Self
A short making of feature about the 1966 John Frankenheimer movie Grande Prix

Rise Against the Sword
1966
as Abare Gōemon
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees ...

The Mad Atlantic
1966
as Heihachirô Murakami
Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they e...

The Mad Atlantic
1966
Executive Producer
Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they e...

Adventure in Kigan Castle
1966
as Osami
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in...

Adventure in Kigan Castle
1966
Associate Producer
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in...

The Sword of Doom
1966
as Toranosuke Shimada
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a ...

Fort Graveyard
1965
as Sergeant Kosugi
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His comm...

Fort Graveyard
1965
Associate Producer
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His comm...

The Retreat from Kiska
1965
as Omura
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhe...

Sanshiro Sugata
1965
as Shogoro Yano
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His...

Red Beard
1965
as Dr. Kyojio Niide ("Red Beard")
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him ...

Samurai Assassin
1965
as Tsuruchiyo Niiro
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assass...

Whirlwind
1964
as Lord Akashi
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post battle...

Samurai Pirate
1963
as Sukezaemon Naya, aka 'Luzon' [Sinbad, in US version]
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the t...

Legacy of the 500,000
1963
as Takeichi Matsuo
During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay of Manille. Former soldier Takeichi Matsuo is now...

Legacy of the 500,000
1963
Director, Associate Producer
During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay of Manille. Former soldier Takeichi Matsuo is now...

High and Low
1963
as Kingo Gondo
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by ...

Attack Squadron
1963
as Lt. Colonel Senda
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain ...

Chûshingura
1962
as Genba Tawaraboshi
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon...

Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
1962
as Zhang Zhizhang

Home-Brewed Tatsu
1962
as Tatsu
1962 Japanese movie

Sanjuro
1962
as Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and ...

The Important Man
1961
as Ánimas Trujano
Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his vil...

The Youth and His Amulet
1961
as Fudo-Myo (Immovable Bright King)
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy'...

Yojimbo
1961
as Sanjuro Kuwabatake / The Samurai
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the loca...

The Masterless 47 – Part II
1961

Daredevil in the Castle
1961
as Mohei
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyoto...

The Masterless 47
1960
as Kazuo Momoi
Part one of The Masterless 47.

The Bad Sleep Well
1960
as Kôichi Nishi
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled d...

Man Against Man
1960
as Kaji
Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to cooperate...

The Storm of the Pacific
1960
as Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1...

The Gambling Samurai
1960
as Kunisada Chuji
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's...

The Last Gunfight
1960
as Detective Saburo Fujioka
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting bet...

The Three Treasures
1959
as Prince Yamato Takeru
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Empe...

Desperado Outpost
1959
as Battalion Commander
When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and ...

Saga of the Vagabonds
1959
as Rokuro Kai
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting a...

Samurai Saga
1959
as Heihachiro Komaki
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady....

The Big Boss
1959
as Kashimura
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping...

The Hidden Fortress
1958
as General Rokurota Makabe
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who g...

Theater of Life
1958
1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

All About Marriage
1958
as Acting teacher
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

Yaji and Kita on the Road
1958
as Toshinoshin Taya
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wi...

The Rickshaw Man
1958
as Matsugorō Tomishima
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

A Holiday in Tokyo
1958
as Tenkai's nephew Jirō
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes o...

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958
as Tasaburo
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disas...

Down Town
1957
as Yoshio Tsuruishi
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of h...

The Lower Depths
1957
as Sutekichi the Thief
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that tur...

A Dangerous Hero
1957
as Kawada
A film by Hideo Suzuki.

Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957
as Tasaburō Kasumi
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disas...

Good Luck to These Two
1957
as Toshio Maruyama
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

A Man in the Storm
1957
as Saburō Watari
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.

Throne of Blood
1957
as Taketoki Washizu
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spi...

Rebels on the High Sea
1956
as Matsuo Tokuzō
A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

Scoundrel
1956
as Kanji

A Wife's Heart
1956
as Kenkichi
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for...

Settlement of Love
1956
as Shuntarō Ōhira
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an annive...

The Underworld
1956
as Chief Inspector Kumada
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuy...

Rainy Night Duel
1956
as Masahiko Koseki
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo ...

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956
as Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He'...

I Live in Fear
1955
as Kiichi Nakajima
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to saf...

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955
as Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for h...

No Time for Tears
1955
as Mitsuo Yano
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic relations...

All is Well 2
1955
as Daikichi Risshun

All is Well
1955
as Daikichi Risshun

A Man Among Men
1955
as "Buick" Maki
Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match i...

The Black Fury
1954
as Eiichi Tsuda
A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequ...

The Surf
1954
as Skipper of the Utashima-maru
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1954
as Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Seven Samurai
1954
as Kikuchiyo
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six ...

The Eagle of the Pacific
1953
as 1st Lieutenant Tomonaga
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war w...

Sunflower Girl
1953
as Ippei Hitachi
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that ...

The Last Embrace
1953
as Shinkichi / Hayakawa
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in ...

My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953
as Matsumura

The Man Who Came to Port
1952
as Gorō Niinuma
An Ishiro Honda film.

Swift Current
1952
as Shunsuke Kosugi
The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City, Iwa...

Tokyo Sweetheart
1952
as Kurokawa
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys...

Sword for Hire
1952
as Sasa Hayatenosuke
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and care...

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed ...

The Life of Oharu
1952
as Katsunosuke
In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Foghorn
1952
as Chiyokichi
A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.

Vendetta of a Samurai
1952
as Mataemon Araki
Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.

Who Knows a Woman's Heart
1951
as Mizuno
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student ...

The Life of a Horse Trader
1951
as Yonetaro Katayama
The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and ...

Sasaki Kojiro
1951
as Miyamoto Musashi
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasak...

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1951
as Kenji Kawakami
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer fest...

Pirates
1951
as Tora

The Idiot
1951
as Denkichi Akama
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kame...

Elegy
1951
as Prosecutor Daisuke Toki
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his discipl...

Beyond Love and Hate
1951
as Gorō Sakata
A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his esca...

Rashomon
1950
as Tajômaru
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Wedding Ring
1950
as Takeshi Ema
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

Scandal
1950
as Ichirô Aoye
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950
as Teisaku Nagasawa
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Escape from Prison
1950
as Shinkichi

Stray Dog
1949
as Det. Murakami
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...

Jakoman and Tetsu
1949
as Tetsu
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one o...

The Quiet Duel
1949
as Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki
A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patien...

Drunken Angel
1948
as Matsunaga
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convi...

These Foolish Times
1947
as Genzaburo Onō, Gang Boss

Snow Trail
1947
as Eijima
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojir...