Toshiro Mifune once wrote of his collaboration with director Akira Kurosawa: “I have never as an actor done anything that I am proud of other than with him.” OK. Fine. Those were 16 pretty great movies the two of you made together. But you made roughly 170 movies! Never? We can judge whether Mifune, who died in 1997, was being a little too harsh on himself (and his many other
Yes, the Japanese team was one of cinema’s great collaborations. But Film Forum’s salute to Toshiro Mifune shows that he was a superb actor no matter who was in the director’s chair.