Toshiro Mifune Day.

Accept no substitute.

More Mifune Birthday Goodness

Still from Mifune's first film role in Snow Trail (1947).

Clowning for the kids as Kikuchiyo in Seven Samurai (1954).

Macbeth, Japanese style, Throne of Blood (1957), with Isuzu Yamada, helping screw courage to its sticking place

Death scene from Samurai Saga, a little known adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac! Yoko Tsukasa is his Roxanne.

The 8 minute spear duel from Hidden Fortress:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/asian-studies/projects/kurosawa/films/Hidden.html