Tag Archives: Toshiro Mifune

samurai candles

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Last week we looked at 24 Akira Kurosawa film posters on the occasion of his 102 nd birthday, with many of the posters featuring his star, Toshiro Mifune. Today, we look at Toshiro Mifune on what would … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article | Tagged Akirs Kurosawa, Ed McBain King's Ransom, jesse marinoff reyes, John Boorman, lee marvin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Tatsuya Nakadai, Terence Young director, Toshiro Mifune, Toshiro Mifune Birthday, toshiro mifune drunken angel, toshiro mifune hell in the pacific, toshiro mifune red beard, Toshiro Mifune Red Sun | Leave a comment

mifune : mimicked but….accept no substitute

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Dave

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Shake Your Hips | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, hiroshi inagaki, jesse marinoff reyes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, miyamoto musashi swordsman, Sergio Leone, Toshiro Mifune, Toshiro Mifune Samurai trilogy, Toshiro Mifune Sanjuro, Toshiro Mifune Yojimbo | Leave a comment

mifune: 3 feet of film deep

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Happy Birthday Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997). Today, we look at Toshiro Mifune on what would have been his 92st birthday (with many films directed by Kurosawa). Well, they did 16 films together and they ranged from great, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Shake Your Hips | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Film history, jesse marinoff reyes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Toshiro Mifune, toshiro mifune drunken angel, toshiro mifune rashomon, toshiro mifune scandal, toshiro mifune the seven samurai | Leave a comment

TURN ON, TUNE IN, AND DROP OUT?

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Dave

According to the “knowability thesis,” every truth is knowable.Frederic Fitch’s paradox refutes the knowability thesis by showing that if we are not omniscient, then not only are some truths not known, but there are some truths that are not knowable. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, Albert Camus, Frederic Fitch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Restall, Homer The Iliad, John Zorn, Ken Kesey, Peter Sellers, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Alpert, Richard Metzger, Stanley Kubrick, Timothy Leary, Toshiro Mifune | Leave a comment

DOSTOEVSKY, KUROSAWA AND THE HEIJI WAR

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Dave

Akira Kurosawa ( 1910-1998 ) applied Western philosophy to Eastern themes in films that appealed to both worlds, but not always for the same reasons. Kurosawa used a narrative style to recount his stories, a form of cinematic deconstruction that … Continue reading →