Mifune: The Last Samurai 2016 123movies

Watch: Mifune: The Last Samurai 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – A feature-length documentary about the life and films of legendary actor Toshiro Mifune, weaving together film clips, archival stills, and interviews with such luminaries as Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. Narrated by Keanu Reeves..
Plot: An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 1,246
	84% | RottenTomatoes
	64/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 37 Popularity: 6.346 | TMDB

Reviews:

Japanese actor Mifune Toshiro
It is a good documentary on an actor that made a big impact in Japan and was important to the export and prominence of Japanese film worldwide, but is slowly being forgotten. With that said, I can only feel that the film had limited budget, research capability and focused only on a small sliver of who and what Toshiro Mifune was. The focus is on Toho and his work in chanbara films with Kurosawa. That is indeed his most important and notable period, but there is not much depth added even in those segments. As interesting as the subject matter is I would still say it is a good documentary where none other exist, but more relevant to those who know little about the actor.

Caramel M&Ms are alright, but I prefer peanut butter honestly.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who was wondering why it is they couldn’t get a hold of Tatsuya Nakadai.

I feel that the approach they took with this documentary was a bit limiting. Given that “Samurai” is in the title it should come as no surprise that they, for the most part, really only talk about Mifune’s roles as samurai in film. In a way it’s both a documentary on Mifune and the chanbara genre as a whole. This is sort of a double edged sword for me. While I think it’s valuable to provide background on the genre that Mifune is most famous for and which he in turn made popular outside of Japan, in the end it feels like you’re sort of getting an incomplete picture of both him and the genre. The history lesson on the chanbara genre basically concludes with the introduction of Mifune and the history lesson on Mifune is more or less confined to his work in the chanbara genre.

All things considered, for as much as I like this documentary and am a fan of what it features, I sort of wish it were two separate documentaries. One which covers chanbara, or perhaps just jidaigeki as a whole, and one which covers Mifune a bit more comprehensively. That might be a bit more satisfying as a whole. I’m sure any fan of Mifune could understand what I’m getting at. For anyone who wants to see a documentary on Mifune, there’s going to be frustration that roles like he had in ‘The Bad Sleep Well’, ‘High and Low’ and ‘I Live in Fear’ are basically ignored. Likewise, any fan of the chanbara genre is undoubtedly going to feel a but cheated that Tatsuya Nakadai is never referred to at all, and that the history feels incomplete.

I appreciate what this documentary is trying to do, and if you’re a fan of Mifune, I would certainly recommend it. It could have been better though.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 20 min (80 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Documentary, Biography
Director Steven Okazaki
Writer Stuart Galbraith IV, Steven Okazaki
Actors Wataru Akashi, Kyôko Kagawa, Takeshi Katô
Country United States, Japan
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
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Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1, 2.35 : 1
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