Irreconcilable Differences / A Fascinating Account of Mifune and Kurosawa's Artistic Partnership and Split (Book Review)

By N.S.

Akira Kurosawa was one of the world’s greatest movie directors, up there with Lean, Hitchcock, Ford and Chaplin.

His greatest leading man was Toshiro Mifune, who starred in the Top 100 masterpieces Rashomon (1950), The Seven Samurai (1954), High and Low (1962), and other classics. Mifune told people that all of his great pictures were made with Kurosawa, and that all the rest were garbage, while Kurosawa told people that Mifune could scale emotional heights with an economy of gesture unequaled among all other actors.

And yet, during the mid-1960s, they suffered a break, and never again worked together.

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