Tag Archives: Toshiro Mifune

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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

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mifune : mimicked but….accept no substitute

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

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mifune: 3 feet of film deep

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

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TURN ON, TUNE IN, AND DROP OUT?

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

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DOSTOEVSKY, KUROSAWA AND THE HEIJI WAR

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

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