Known For: Japanese actor (1920–1997)
Category: Actors
Occupation: actor, film producer, film actor, film director, television actor
Country: Japan
City: Qingdao
Date of Birth: Thursday, 01 April 1920
Died: 1997-12-24 00:00:00 in Q1490
Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese actor and producer. A winner of numerous awards and accolades over a lengthy career, Mifune is best known for starring in Akira Kurosawa's critically acclaimed jidaigeki films such as Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958) and Yojimbo (1961). He also portrayed Miyamoto Musashi in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy (1954–1956), Lord Toranaga in the NBC television miniseries Shōgun, and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in three different films. He is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all time.
| BirthPlace | Qingdao |
| Awards | Q11605748, Q19833467, Q19833467, Q19833467, Q19833556, Q17985761, Q5354425, Q2089923, Q2089923, Q13452528, Q20002154 |
| Spouses | Sachiko Yoshimine |
| Children | Shirō Mifune, Mika Mifune |
| Website | http://www.mifuneproductions.co.jp/ |
| Wikipedia | Toshirō_Mifune |
Toshiro Mifune was born on April 1, 1920, in Seitō, Japanese-occupied Shandong (present-day Qingdao, China), the eldest son of Tokuzo and Sen Mifune. His father Tokuzo was a trade merchant and photographer who ran a photography business in Qingdao and Yingkou, and was originally the son of a medical doctor from Kawauchi, Akita Prefecture. His mother Sen was the daughter of a hatamoto, a high-ranking samurai official. Toshiro's parents, who were working as Methodist missionaries, were some of the Japanese citizens encouraged to live in Shandong by the Japanese government during its occupation before the Republic of China took over the city in 1922. Mifune grew up with his parents and two younger siblings in Dalian, Fengtian from the age of 4 to 19. In his youth, Mifune worked at his father's photo studio. After spending the first 19 years of his life in China, as a Japanese citizen, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army Aviation division, where he served in the Aerial Photography unit during World War II.
