Although he had originally planned to work in films as an assistant cameraman, Toshiro Mifune was auditioned as an actor, a fortuitous career shift that helped change the course of Japanese cinematic history. He appeared in many of the great post-war Japanese films, most notably those of director Akira Kurosawa.
The collaboration between Kurosawa and Mifune began with the film "Drunken… See Full Toshiro Mifune Biography