When Toshiro Mifune turned down George Lucas to protect the image of the samurai

Thus, given his respect for Kurosawa, Lucas first thought of Toshiro Mifune, who had made 16 films with the director, because ...
The Boston Globe

Tatsuya Nakadai, multifaceted star of Japanese cinema, dies at 92

Tatsuya Nakadai, an actor rivaled only by Toshiro Mifune as the best-known star of 20th-century Japanese cinema, died Nov. 8. He was 92. The cause was pneumonia, according to a statement from ...
Wall Street Journal

Remembering Tatsuya Nakadai, Japan’s Man of a Thousand Faces

With the death of Tatsuya Nakadai at age 92 in Tokyo on Nov. 8, the world lost the last of Japan’s golden-age movie stars and one of cinema’s greatest actors. A mighty foil to the screen giant Toshiro ...