# The best Toshiro Mifune films

From Kurosawa to Hiroshi Inagaki and Kihachi Okamoto: the classics of 'the world's Mifune', chosen from ciatr, Eiga Kakuzuke and Yahoo! Chiebukuro.

- 17 votes · 15 items
- Jan 27, 2020 · cinema_slow
- https://even.best/en/l/4065/the-best-toshiro-mifune-films

## Top 10

1. **Red Beard (1965)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A clinic doctor; best actor in Venice.
2. **Yojimbo (1961)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A ronin playing two gangs against each other in a post town.
3. **Japan's Longest Day (1967)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — War Minister Anami on the eve of surrender, by Kihachi Okamoto.
4. **Sanjuro (1962)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A ronin who helps a group of young samurai.
5. **High and Low (1963)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — An executive caught up in a kidnapping.
6. **Throne of Blood (1957)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Washizu, a Macbeth moved to feudal Japan.
7. **The Hidden Fortress (1958)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A general escorting a princess.
8. **Drunken Angel (1948)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A gangster with tuberculosis: his first film with Kurosawa.
9. **Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — By Hiroshi Inagaki; an honorary Oscar.
10. **Samurai Rebellion (1967)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A father who defies his lord, by Masaki Kobayashi.
11. **Fort Graveyard (1965)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A sergeant leading a boys' military band, by Kihachi Okamoto.
12. **Rashomon (1950)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — The bandit Tajōmaru; Golden Lion in Venice.
13. **Seven Samurai (1954)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Samurai hired by farmers; he plays Kikuchiyo.
14. **Stray Dog (1949)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A young detective whose pistol has been stolen.
15. **The Rickshaw Man (1958)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rickshaw puller Matsugoro; Golden Lion in Venice.

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