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Essay heading: Samurai in Film
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The parallels between the samurai and cowboy archetypes and the influence one had on the other is as evident in Kurosawa's Yojimbo as it is in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992).
During his career, Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997) starred in 134 films and played either a classic samurai or a common man of ?samurai principles' in nearly half of them...
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Besides his Kurosawa films, Mifune also starred in a number of Hiroshi Inagaki's samurai films including the classic, Musashi Miyamoto (1954). His reputation worldwide landed him a number of starring roles in Western productions including the award winning television mini-series, Shogun (1980) based on the James Clavell novel...
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