Mifune, the Last Samurai

A portrait of Toshiro Mifune, the most emblematic actor of Japanese Cinema. Just as John Ford and John Wayne elevated the Western genre into sagas exploring the human side of America’s violent expansion, Kurosawa and Mifune transformed the chanbara film – the period sword fi ghting movie – into bold narratives exploring individuality versus repression in Japanese society. A film about the birth of an idol and a new kind of cinema that has the meditative qualities and stoic force of a samurai.
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Script: Steven Okazaki, Stuart Galbraith IV
Cinematography: Tohru Hina, Yasuyuki Ishikawa
Editing: Steven Okazaki
Sound: Tsuyoshi Abo
Music: Jeffrey Wood
Production: Creative Associates, Limited / Farallon Films
Producers: Toichiro Shiraishi, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Kensuke Zushi, Yukie Kito
Narration: Keanu Reeves
Format: Color-B&W
Production Country: Japan
Production Year: 2016
Duration: 80
Contact: Celluloid Dreams info@celluloid-dreams.com

Steven Okazaki

Filmography

(selected)
?1985 Unfinished Business
1990 Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo
2006 The Mushroom Club (short)
2008 White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
?2016 Mifune, the Last Samurai