Review of Mifune: The Last Samurai (2016) by Kanji T — 08 Jan 2017

Mifune was an actor bigger than life and although he played a myriad of characters, the ronin in the movie Sanjuro is definitely my favorite...

This review of Mifune: The Last Samurai (2016) was written by Kanji T on 08 Jan 2017.

Mifune: The Last Samurai has generally received positive reviews.

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By Beth Accomando (509) for KPBS.org (509) on 03 Feb 2017

What the film does succeed at is reminding us what a genius Mifune was and hopefully it will inspire a new generation to discover him…

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By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 30 Nov 2016

Okazaki's film may leave us with a slightly greater appreciation of his performances, but the man himself remains beyond our grasp…

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By Henry A (75) on 29 Apr 2017

I'd been wanting to see this, especially after listening to the director appear on a podcast, and was excited to see it pop up on Netflix…

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By Stephen Farber (295) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 23 Nov 2016

The subject is a rich one, but the film simply isn’t incisive enough…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 22 Nov 2016

As much a documentary on Kurosawa, the film is a reminder of how much we have lost since the golden age of cinema was replaced by the bottom-line…

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By Byron B (1,084) on 13 Nov 2018

For fans of the actor Toshirô Mifune this is a must see doc…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Nov 2016

Mifune: The Last Samurai is less a comprehensive overview of the actor’s life than it is an analysis of what that life meant…

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By Gerald Peary (163) for Arts Fuse (166) on 08 Dec 2016

Classic scenes from Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo are shown, but many of Kurosawa's finest with Mifune are skipped…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 01 Dec 2016

I do not see an audience much beyond people like me, but people like me will love Mifune: The Last Samurai…

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By M. Faust (314) for The Public (Buffalo) (288) on 17 Sep 2017

To the extent that The Last Samurai lets you watch clips from these and other Mifune films, it's as good a time as you could want to have in…

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