{"id":7794,"date":"2022-01-18T13:17:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=7794"},"modified":"2023-12-12T05:52:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T10:52:40","slug":"mifune-4-week-festival-of-33-films-opens-feb-11-at-film-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=7794","title":{"rendered":"MIFUNE, 4-Week Festival of 33 Films Opens Feb. 11 at Film Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FEBRUARY 11 \u2013 MARCH 10 AT FILM FORUM
FOUR-WEEK FESTIVAL OF 33 FILMS STARRING
THE LEGENDARY JAPANESE ACTOR TOSHIRO\u0304 MIFUNE

35mm rarities and rediscoveries imported from the libraries of
The Japan Foundation and The National Film Archive of Japan

Series includes SEVEN SAMURAI<\/em>, RASHOMON<\/em>, YOJIMBO<\/em>, THRONE OF BLOOD<\/em>, A WIFE\u2019S HEART<\/em>, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS<\/em>, HIGH AND LOW<\/em>, DRUNKEN ANGEL<\/em>, HELL IN THE PACIFIC<\/em>, STRAY DOG<\/em>, SWORD OF DOOM<\/em>, and many more

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MIFUNE<\/strong>, a four-week festival of 33 films celebrating the legendary Japanese actor Toshiro\u0304 Mifune, will run at Film Forum<\/strong> from February 11<\/strong> through March 30<\/strong>. The series, co-presented by The Japan Foundation, includes all 16 of Mifune\u2019s collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa<\/strong> \u2014 \u201cthe greatest actor-director partnership in film history\u201d (David Shipman) \u2014 along with rarities and rediscoveries in 35mm imported from the libraries of The Japan Foundation and The National Film Archive of Japan. See complete schedule below.

Mifune (1920\u20131997) arrived at Toho Studios in 1947 seeking a photographer\u2019s assistant job, when he was spotted by young contract director Akira Kurosawa. Thus began an artistic partnership that would produce some of the greatest masterpieces of world cinema, including Rashomon<\/em>, Seven Samurai<\/em>, Throne of Blood<\/em>, Hidden Fortress<\/em>, High And Low<\/em>, and Yojimbo<\/em>. He would cement his icon status with over 150 starring roles, for directors like Mikio Naruse, Hiroshi Inagaki, Kajiro Yamamoto, Kihachi Okamoto, Terence Young, and John Boorman.

An actor of remarkable grace and physicality, Mifune remains the lone warrior slashing his way to glory \u2014 both Japan\u2019s John Wayne and the prototype for Clint Eastwood. But in the way he revolutionized post-war screen acting with his emotional nakedness, he was also Marlon Brando; in the way he encompassed titanic, complex, classical roles, he was Laurence Olivier. With his towering presence and seemingly endless range, there was, simply, no one like him.

The series, originally titled MIFUNE 100, commemorating Mifune\u2019s centennial year in 2020, was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
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The actor was born on April 1, 1920.<\/p>\n

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MIFUNE <\/strong>has been programmed by Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum\u2019s Director of Repertory Programming, and Japanese film scholar Michael Jeck.<\/div>\n


\u201cI am a person rarely impressed by actors\u2026But in the case of Mifune I was completely overwhelmed. The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression. Toshiro\u0304 Mifune needed only three feet.\u201d<\/strong>
\u2013 Akira Kurosawa

\u201cUnder Kurosawa, Mifune\u2019s versatility is phenomenal. It is as though Kurosawa has been able to draw from Mifune something even Mifune did not know he possessed.\u201d<\/strong>
\u2013 Donald Richie, The Films of Akira Kurosawa<\/em>

“There would be no Magnificent Seven <\/em>without The Seven Samurai<\/em>, no A Fistful of Dollars<\/em> for Clint Eastwood without Yojimbo<\/em>, no Star Wars<\/em> for anyone without The Hidden Fortress<\/em>.”<\/strong>
\u2013 Keanu Reeves, narrator of Mifune: The Last Samurai<\/em><\/div>\n

Public Screening Schedule:<\/strong><\/u>

RASHOMON<\/strong>
Japan, 1950
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Machiko Ky\u014d, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura
Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa\u2019s short story \u201cIn a Grove\u201d

Rape and murder in 12th-century Kyoto, as seen by four conflicting witnesses. Adapted from two stories by the great Ryunosuke Akutagawa, its worldwide acclaim (Venice Grand Prize, Best Foreign Film Oscar) vaulted an already-great-but internationally-unknown director and national cinema to world prominence. Machiko Ky\u014d\u2019s performance would land her a LIFE cover and, as the Bandit, Mifune goes beyond overacting into something so outrageous it could only be real.
DCP. Approx. 88 min.<\/em>

Friday, February 11 at 2:55, 7:10
Wednesday, February 15 at 5:35
Friday, March 4 at 3:50
Saturday, March 5 at 12:40
Wednesday, March 9 at 6:00
Thursday, March 10 at 12:40, 5:10<\/strong>
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I LIVE IN FEAR<\/strong>
Japan, 1955
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Produced by S\u014djir\u014d Motoki
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Takashi Shimura

70ish factory owner Mifune (then 35), obsessed with fear of the Bomb, demands his extended family move to the supposed safety of Brazil. Every device at Kurosawa\u2019s command is enlisted to enforce the mood of oppression; with a desperate Mifune\u2019s climactic speech equaling his legendary Seven Samurai <\/em>monologue.
35mm. Approx. 103 min.<\/em>

Friday, February 11 at 12:40, 4:55, 9:10
Friday, February 18 at 12:30
Saturday, February 19 at 2:50<\/strong>
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THE QUIET DUEL<\/strong>
Japan, 1955
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Miki Sanjo, Takashi Shimura

During surgery in a leaky tent at the jungle front, Dr. Mifune is infected with syphilis, then must decide what to do when he returns to an expectant fianc\u00e9e back home. With Takashi Shimura as his doctor dad; and the opening operation scene a 21-shot tour de force. Kurosawa\/Mifune\u2019s rarest film, in a 35mm print especially imported from Japan.
35mm print courtesy of The Japan Foundation. Approx. 95min.<\/em>

Saturday, February 12 at 1:00
Thursday, February 17 at 6:15
Friday, February 18 at 5:10<\/strong>
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THE IDIOT<\/strong>
Japan, 1951
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori

Akira Kurosawa\u2019s powerful adaptation of favorite author Dostoevsky. The triangle: Masayuki Mori the holy innocent \u201cMyshkin;\u201d Mifune the homicidal \u201cRogozin;\u201d and Ozu\u2019s loveable Setsuko Hara as the vicious \u201cNatasha.\u201d When the producers asked him to cut his 4\u00bd hour original, Kurosawa famously replied \u201cIf you want to cut it in half, you\u2019d better cut it lengthwise.\u201d
35mm print courtesy of The Japan Foundation. Approx. 166 min.<\/em>

Saturday, February 12 at 3:20
Sunday, February 13 at 5:30
Thursday, February 17 at 3:00<\/strong>
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SEVEN SAMURAI<\/strong>
Japan, 1954
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Daisuke Kat\u014d, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Inaba

In 16th-century Japan, farmers under the heel of marauding bandits decide to hire ronin for protection; the odds: 7 samurai vs. 40 bandits; their pay: a few grains of rice.<\/p>\n

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With Takashi Shimura as the calm leader, and Mifune as #7, transitioning from manic goofball to tortured, self-hating tragic hero, amid some of the most hair-raising battles ever shot. \u201cNo one has come near it.\u201d \u2013 Pauline Kael.
35mm print courtesy of The Japan Foundation. Approx. 207 min.<\/em>

Saturday, February 12 at 7:00
Friday, February 18 at 7:10
Monday, February 21 at 12:40
Thursday, March 10 at 7:15<\/strong>
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SCANDAL<\/strong>
Japan, 1950
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Takashi Shimura and Shirley Yamaguchi

A successful painter and an attractive pop singer meet innocently at a mountain resort, but Amour magazine takes it from there, with an action for slander leading to Kurosawa\u2019s only \u2014 and brilliant \u2014 courtroom scene. Mifune as the motorcycling artist has moments of hilarious deadpan humor, but the film is dominated by Takashi Shimura as the sometime lawyer and full-time slob.
35mm print courtesy Japan Foundation. Approx. 104 min.<\/em>

Sunday, February 13 at 12:40
Monday, February 14 at 3:00<\/strong>
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SAMURAI SAGA<\/strong>
Japan, 1959
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Yoko Tsukasa

Mifune\u2019s 17th century samurai responds to jibes about his enlarged proboscis with witty haiku and slashing swordplay, then plays ghost writer for tongue tied Akira Takarada\u2019s courting of Yoko Tsukasa, even though he secretly loves her himself. Sound familiar? Of course, it\u2019s Cyrano de Bergerac, with Mifune alternately hilarious and moving \u2014 and his nose is the best yet, both physically believable, and well, kind of ugly \u2014 as called for in the text.
35mm print courtesy of the National Film Archive of Japan. Approx. 111 min.<\/em>

Sunday, February 13 at 3:00
Wednesday, February 16 at 7:35<\/strong>
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STRAY DOG<\/strong>
Japan, 1949
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Takashi Shimura

While a rubble-strewn Tokyo swelters through a torrid heat wave, awkward young white-suited detective Mifune finds to his shame that his pistol has been stolen \u2014 and that it\u2019s been used in a murder. Thus begins his obsessive, guilt-ridden search, highlighted by a nearly 10-minute sequence shot by hidden camera in the city\u2019s toughest black market. Kurosawa adapted his own unpublished novel for this, the beginning of the genre in Japan.
35mm. Approx. 122 min.<\/em>

Monday, February 14 at 8:10
Friday, February 18 at 2:40
Sunday, February 20 at 12:40
Thursday, February 24 at 5:50
Wednesday, March 9 at 8:10<\/strong>
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SNOW TRAIL<\/strong>
Japan, 1947
Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Takashi Shimura

On the run from their under-the-credits bank job, initially creepy Takashi Shimura and intimidating 27-year old Mifune (top-billed in his first film); hole up in a remote Japanese mountain lodge with the aging, unsuspecting proprietor, his granddaughter, and a marooned mountaineer. Vertigo and frostbite-inducing winter location shooting in the Japanese Alps.
16mm print courtesy of The Japan Foundation. Approx. 85 min.<\/em>

Tuesday, February 15 at 12:40, 6:00<\/strong>
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THE LOWER DEPTHS<\/strong>
Japan, 1957
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Ky\u014dko Kagawa

Gorky\u2019s ensemble play about down-and-outs, transposed to 19th century Japan, in one of the greatest theater to film adaptations ever, with highly original interpretations including Mifune as a punkish thief. All too little known, this is one of Kurosawa\u2019s finest works.
35mm. Approx. 125 min.<\/em>

Tuesday, February 15 at 2:45, 8:00
Wednesday, February 16 at 12:40
Tuesday, March 1 at 5:40<\/strong>
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THRONE OF BLOOD<\/strong>
Japan, 1957
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Isuzu Yamada

Macbeth transforms into a medieval Japanese legend, as General Mifune gallops through a seemingly endless forest to his encounter with a single witch, then, as dense fog lifts, finds himself before a looming castle. With the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his Lady, this is a partnership of titans.
35mm. Approx. 110 min.<\/em>

Wednesday February 16 at 3:15
Thursday, February 17 at 12:40, 8:20
Sunday, February 27 at 12:40, 8:10
Sunday, March 6 at 9:05<\/strong>
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A WIFE\u2019S HEART<\/strong>
Japan, 1956
Directed by Mikio Naruse
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Hideko Takamine

Mifune as romantic lead? Every time hard-working wife Hideko Takamine (Floating Clouds<\/em>, When A Woman Ascends the Stairs<\/em>) raises enough yen for that coffee shop, her family scarfs it; but visiting bank loan officer Toshir\u014d, here sharply dressed, may have the answer. The intensity of the chemistry between the superstars becomes, without a word or a touch, almost palpable.
35mm print courtesy of The Japan Foundation. Approx. 101 min.<\/em>

Monday, February 14 at 12:40, 6:00
Monday, March 7 at 7:40<\/strong>
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HIGH AND LOW<\/strong>
Japan, 1963
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ky\u014dko Kagawa.

Shoe company exec Mifune is in the midst of a mortgage-everything takeover battle when the phone rings with a giant ransom demand for his son. Adapted from Ed McBain\u2019s novel King\u2019s Ransom, this is the ultimate kidnap movie, with the cops led by Steve McQueen-cool Tatsuya Nakadai; the money transfer aboard the Shinkansen (bullet train); and a jailhouse interview punctuated by the heaviest steel door closing in film history.
35mm. Approx. 143 min.<\/em>

Saturday, February 19 at 8:00
Wednesday, March 2 at 2:30
Tuesday, March 8 at 12:40, 7:50<\/strong>
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HIDDEN FORTRESS<\/strong>
Japan, 1958
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara

Two constantly bickering and bumbling farmers on the run from clan wars are dragooned by superman general Mifune into aiding his rescue of fugitive princess Misa Uehara and her family\u2019s hidden gold. Pure entertainment from the masters, acknowledged by George Lucas as the inspiration for Star Wars.
35mm. Approx. 139 min.<\/em>

Saturday, February 19 at 5:10
Sunday, February 20 at 7:00
Tuesday, February 22 at 12:40
Saturday, March 5 at 7:10
Monday, March 7 at 3:00<\/strong>
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DRUNKEN ANGEL<\/strong>
Japan, 1948
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Reisaburo Yamamoto

Mifune\u2019s greasily-coiffed \u201cJungle Boogie\u201d-dancing gangster gets the bad news from alcoholic doctor Takashi Shimura \u2014 he\u2019s got TB; and then the prewar boss returns. First collaboration of \u201cthe greatest actor-director team in film history\u201d (David Shipman).
35mm. Approx. 98 min.<\/em>

Saturday, February 19 at 12:40
Sunday, February 27 at 6:00
Monday, February 28 at 12:40
Tuesday, March 1 at 8:20
Wednesday, March 2 at 5:50
Thursday, March 10 at 2:45<\/strong>
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RED BEARD<\/strong>
Japan, 1965
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Y\u016bz\u014d Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan

In a 19th-century slum clinic for the poor, a gruff heavily bearded Dr. Mifune (Best Actor, Venice) straightens out an arrogant young intern and through his hardboiled warmth and stern compassion creates, instead of the usual \u201ccircle of evil,\u201d rather a circle of good. Mifune\u2019s last film for Kurosawa.
35mm. Approx. 185 min.<\/em>

Sunday, February 20 at 3:10
Tuesday, February 22 at 3:30
Monday, February 28 at 7:45<\/strong>
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ALL ABOUT MARRIAGE<\/strong>
Japan, 1958
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Izumi Yukimura, Michiyo Tamaki, Ken Uehara

Ultra-perky model Izumi Yukimura (a chart-busting singer off-screen) likes single freedom but feels that ryosai kenbo<\/em> (\u201cgood wife, wise mother\u201d) pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister, with Tatsuya Nakadai arriving late as a hip dreamboat, and Mifune, pricelessly cameoing (uncredited) for friend Okamoto\u2019s first feature, as her acting teacher.
35mm print courtesy of The Japan Foundation. Approx. 84 min.<\/em>

Monday, February 21 at 6:00<\/strong>
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RED SUN<\/strong>
Japan, 1971
Directed by Terence Young
Starring Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Toshir\u014d Mifune, Ursula Andress, Capucine

Left for dead by partner Alain Delon after their robbery of the Japanese Embassy\u2019s train to D.C., Charles Bronson is forcibly recruited to help guard Mifune recover a priceless presentational sword. Then a classic double act across the desert, with cheerful rapscallion Bronson\u2019s repeated escape attempts being foiled by stern straight man Mifune. For once Toshir\u014d dubs his own English, to powerful effect in a speech on the end of the Samurai.
35mm. Approx. 112 min.<\/em>

Wednesday, February 23 at 12:40, 6:10<\/strong>
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HELL IN THE PACIFIC<\/strong>
U.S., 1968
Directed by John Boorman
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Lee Marvin

Both stranded on an unoccupied Pacific island, Yank Lee Marvin and Japanese Mifune (both actual WWII vets who hit it off great during shooting) keep fighting against each other, until… while speaking their own impenetrable (unsubtitled) languages. Two-man adventure story \u2014 stunningly shot in Scope on location on Palau in the Philippine Sea.
Digital. Approx. 103 min.<\/em>

Thursday, February 24 at 12:40, 8:20<\/strong>
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JAPAN\u2019S LONGEST DAY<\/strong>
Japan, 1967
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Chish\u016b Ry\u016b, Takashi Shimura

Relentlessly paced and rivetingly accurate account of the day of the surrender, with fanatical middle-level officers trying to take over Tokyo and thwart even the Emperor\u2019s wishes. Mifune as the War Minister dominates a gigantic cast, with the cinema\u2019s most graphic seppuku as the dramatic and horrific climax.
35mm print imported from Japan, courtesy of The Japan Foundation. Approx. 157 min.<\/em>

Tuesday, February 22 at 7:10
Wednesday, February 23 at 3:00
Friday, March 4 at 12:40<\/strong>
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SAMURAI ASSASSIN<\/strong>
Japan, 1965
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto, Y\u016bnosuke It\u014d, Michiyo Aratama

1860; and while \u201csnow seldom falls in March,\u201d it\u2019s coming down hard as progressive regent Naosuke Ii starts his heavily guarded daily procession, even as fanatical anti-shogunate samurai move in for their attack. Mifune\u2019s fictional character, an often unsympathetic, embittered, wrong-headed loser, is arguably his most complex non-Kurosawa portrait. A tour-de-force in dynamic framing for the wide screen.
35mm print courtesy Japan Foundation. Approx. 122 min.<\/em>

Wednesday, March 2 at 8:00
Wednesday, March 9 at 12:40<\/strong>
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THE BAD SLEEP WELL<\/strong>
Japan, 1960
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Ky\u014dko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura

Scandal-seeking reporters act as a chorus at the wedding reception for bespectacled pencil-pushing executive secretary Mifune and limping boss\u2019s daughter Kyoko Kagawa, even as cops wait in the wings and in wheels a cake shaped like an office building, a single rose marking the site of a notorious suicide \u2014 or was it murder? And that\u2019s just the first 20 minutes! Roughly Enron meets Hamlet, as scandal and ruin move inexorably up the corporate ladder.
35mm. Approx. 151 min.<\/em>

Thursday, February 24 at 2:50
Sunday, February 27 at 3:00
Friday, March 4 at 8:20<\/strong>
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SAMURAI REBELLION<\/strong>
Japan, 1967
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Yoko Tsukasa, Go Kato, Tatsuya Nakadai
Based on Yasuhiko Takiguchi\u2019s short story, Hairyozuma shimatsu

Faithful retainer Mifune plays it his Lordship\u2019s way, even when the lord decides to unload his mistress on Mifune\u2019s son. But when their first child suddenly becomes heir, the lord wants her back. The built-up tension is orgasmically released in Mifune\u2019s greatest one-against-all fight and then in a climactic final battle with reluctant pal Tatsuya Nakadai: \u201cAs exciting as any duel ever put on film.\u201d \u2013 David Shipman. Kinema Jumpo Award for Best Japanese Film of 1967.
35mm. Approx. 128 min.<\/em>

Friday, February 25 at 1:00, 6:00<\/strong>
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THE LAST GUNFIGHT<\/strong>
Japan, 1960
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, K\u00f4ji Tsuruta, Y\u00f4ko Tsukasa, Seizabur\u00f4 Kawazu

Exiled to a mobbedup town, cop Mifune befriends one oyabun, then sympathizes with another (Koji Tsuruta, Musashi\u2019s final opponent) about his wife\u2019s murder: against yakuza rules. But there\u2019s a gang war coming, a tough choice, and a final twist.
35mm print imported from Japan, courtesy of The Japan Foundation. Approx. 95 min.<\/em>

Friday, February 25 at 3:50, 8:40<\/strong>
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ZATOICHI MEETS YOJIMBO<\/strong>
Japan, 1970
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Shintaro Katsu, Ayako Wakao

Mifune squares off with Shintaro Katsu\u2019s Zatoichi in the duel of the super-stars. Twentieth in the Zatoichi series boasts raucous comedy teamwork by the stars, ravishing widescreen color photography by the great Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon<\/em>, Yojimbo<\/em>), amid a typically complicated plot \u2014 craven gang boss, crooked silk merchant, and Mysterious Stranger vying with our heroes for a cache of embezzled gold.
35mm print imported from Japan, courtesy of The Japan Foundation. Approx. 116 min.<\/em>

Saturday, February 26 at 7:30
Thursday, March 3 at 5:10<\/strong>
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MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI<\/strong>
Japan, 2015
Directed by Steven Okazaki

Mifune\u2019s life and career, as told through home movies, family photographs (dating back to his childhood in China; he wouldn\u2019t step foot in Japan till age 20), rare archival footage (including some astounding scenes from otherwise-lost silent chanbara movies), and extensive interviews with Mifune\u2019s family, friends, colleagues.
DCP. Approx. 80 min.<\/em>

Monday, February 28 at 6:00
Wednesday, March 2 at 12:40<\/strong>
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MUSASHI MIYAMOTO: SAMURAI TRILOGY PART I<\/strong>
Japan, 1954
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune
Adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa’s novel, Musashi

Umpteenth life of the real (c.1584-1645) swordsman, artist, writer (Book of Five Rings) and ronin Miyamoto (here adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa\u2019s 1930s newspaper serial-turned-novel). Mifune\u2019s young rebel Takezo is captured and tutored by his village priest, and after several years becomes Musashi. Path-breakingly lush color photography.
Digital. Approx. 93 min.<\/em>

Tuesday, March 1 at 12:40
Sunday, March 6 at 2:45<\/strong>
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DUEL AT ICHIJOJI TEMPLE: SAMURAI TRILOGY PART II<\/strong>
Japan, 1955
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune
Adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa’s novel, Musashi

Mifune\u2019s Musashi takes on an entire fighting school in a nighttime duel and Koji Tsuruta\u2019s Kojiro Sasaki first appears.
Digital. Approx. 104 min.<\/em>

Tuesday, March 1 at 3:00
Sunday, March 6 at 4:40<\/strong>
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DUEL AT GANRYU ISLAND: SAMURAI TRILOGY PART III<\/strong>
Japan, 1956
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune
Adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa’s novel, Musashi

Musashi and Kojiro pursue separate adventures, but end up at that final daybreak duel.
Digital. Approx. 105 min.<\/em>

Sunday, March 6 at 6:50<\/strong>
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YOJIMBO<\/strong>
Japan, 1961
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Produced by Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka and Ry\u016bz\u014d Kikushima
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai

Wandering into a deserted village, scruffy and hungry ronin Mifune sees his chance to rake in the ryo as a yojimbo (bodyguard). And after checking out the sake merchant\u2019s thugs squaring off against the silk merchant\u2019s goon squad, twice as much, if he hires out to both sides. But there\u2019s a final showdown with Tatsuya Nakadai\u2019s pistol-waving, Elvislike Samurai killer.
35mm. Approx. 110 min.<\/em>

Wednesday, February 23 at 8:30
Saturday, February 26 at 12:40, 5:10
Monday, February 28 at 2:45
Thursday, March 3 at 12:40
Tuesday, March 8 at 3:30<\/strong>
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SANJURO<\/strong>
Japan, 1962
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Y\u016bz\u014d Kayama, Reiko Dan

Painfully sincere young samurai plan how to save the day in their clan\u2019s power struggle, but they have to be straightened out and bailed out by grubby ronin Mifune, repeating his Yojimbo role, his final showdown with Tatsuya Nakadai coming to a startling conclusion.
35mm. Approx. 96 min.<\/em>

Saturday, February 26 at 3:00
Thursday, March 3 at 3:00
Tuesday, March 8 at 5:45<\/strong>
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SWORD OF DOOM<\/strong>
Japan, 1966
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune star in the story of a wandering samurai who exists in a maelstrom of violence. A gifted swordsman plying his craft during the turbulent final days of shogunate rule in Japan, Ryunosuke (Nakadai) kills without remorse or mercy. It is a way of life that ultimately leads to madness. Kihachi Okamoto\u2019s swordplay classic is the thrilling tale of a man who chooses to devote his life to evil.
35mm. Approx. 121 min.<\/em>

Monday, February 21 at 7:55
Wednesday, March 9 at 3:10<\/strong>
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RED LION<\/strong>
Japan, 1969
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
Starring Toshir\u014d Mifune, Shima Iwashita

1868. Stuttering former \u201cvillage idiot\u201d Mifune returns to his hometown resplendent in a borrowed officer\u2019s red lion headdress, to announce their liberation by advancing anti-shogunate imperialist forces \u2014 but there\u2019s a sting in the tale as slapstick farce turns to\u2026
35mm print courtesy of The Japan Foundation. Approx. 115 min.<\/em>

Friday March 4 at 6:00
Saturday, March 5 at 4:45<\/strong>
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Film Forum Repertory is Programmed by Bruce Goldstein.
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