Mifune toshiro biography definition
Mifune toshiro biography definition
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| Toshirō Mifune | |
Toshirō Mifune - detail from movie poster of movie Scandal (1950) | |
| Date of birth: | 1 1920(1920-Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",".-01) |
| Birth location: | Qingdao, China |
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| Date of death: | December 24 1997 (aged 77) |
| Death location: | Mitaka, Japan |
| Spouse: | Sachiko Yoshimine (1950-1995) |
Toshirō Mifune (三船 敏郎Mifune Toshirō[miɸɯne toɕiɺoː], April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 post-World War II feature films.
Born in Manchuria, he was drafted into the Japanese military, where he taught aerial photography during World War II. After the war he found a job as a cameraman at Toho Studios, where his friends secretly entered him in a “new faces" contest intended to discover new, young talent for the studio.
He was hired as an actor and was soon collaborating with director Akira Kurosawa. Their film Rashomon won the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival