sloth unleashed

Akira Kurosawa

- The Idiot

(1951)

Lobby card for Fort Graveyard (Chi To Suna, 血と砂), 1965, directed by Kihachi Okamoto (岡本喜八) and starring Toshiro Mifune (三船敏郎).

Press photo for Samurai III: Duel At Ganryu Island (決闘巌流島), 1956, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki (稲垣浩) and starring Toshiro Mifune (三船敏郎) and Mariko Okada (岡田茉莉子).

Toshiro Mifune for “生きものの記録” I Live In Fear - 1955 by Akira Kurosawa.

Press photo for Throne Of Blood (蜘蛛巣城), 1957, directed by Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明) and starring Toshiro Mifune (三船 敏郎).

Yep. That’s Toshiro Mifune (三船 敏郎) in a lobby card for The Important Man (価値ある男), 1961, directed by Ismael Rodriguez.

You can watch the movie unsubtitled on YouTube.

taishou-kun from mikionarusedb-iroiro: © TOHO

Snow Trail (銀嶺の果て Ginrei no hate) is a 1947 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi from Akira Kurosawa’s screenplay. It was the first film role for Toshiro Mifune, later to become one of Japan’s most famous actors. Mifune and the other main actor in the film Takashi Shimura, later became long-term collaborators of film director Akira Kurosawa.

Ginrei no hate 銀嶺の果て (Snow Trail) - Director : Taniguchi Senkichi 谷口 千吉 (1912-2007) - Japan - 1947

  Toshiro Mifune as War Minister Korechika Anami.

Toshiro takes the bus at the beginning of Engagement Ring (and checks his tie!)

Polish poster for RED BEARD (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1965)

Design: Stanislaw Zamecznik (1909-1971)

Poster source: till2017.blogspot.com

Celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday with one of my favorite adaptations.