Toshirō Mifune

During WWII two pilots, one American and one Japanese, crash on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. There, they must let go of their hostility and cooperate in order to survive, but will they?

A sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, set against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. Follows Musashi's odyssey from his unruly youth to his enlightened years as a warrior.

The story of a shipwrecked English navigator who becomes a samurai during a struggle for power by a Shogun and the Emperor in feudal Japan.

"During a life-saving operation, army surgeon Fujisaki (Mifune) contaminates himself with syphilis, a disease virtually incurable in 1940s Japan. After the war, he returns to work at the hospital maintained by his obstetrician father (Shimura), but agonizes over the disease that threatens to destroy his impending marriage, while simultaneously trying to save other patients' lives -- including the man from whom he contracted the disease"--Container....

A powerful drama about an American pilot and a Japanese naval officer who are stranded on the same tiny Pacific island.

Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.

"In his final portrayal of the Yojimbo charachter, Mifune is hired to perform a mission so mysterious, he isn't told what it is. All he knows is that he is supposed to go to a remote mountain pass and wait for something to happen!"--Container.

Blind masseur Zatoichi and swordsman Yojimbo liberate a peaceful village from the evil Kobotoke clan. The twentieth of a series of films set in medieval Japan about Ichi, a blind masseur who lives by the Yakuza code and uses his deadly cane sword against his enemies. In this episode, Zatoichi finds that one of his favorite villages has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate.

A man returns to his home dressed as an Imperial Army officer in order to rid the village of corrupt officials.

Chamberlain plays Blackthorne, an English navigator shipwrecked on the shores of feudal Japan, who becomes a samurai. Mifune is Toranaga, the warlord driven to become Shogun - supreme military dictator. Shimada plays Mariko, Blackthorn's interpreter and ill-fated lover.