Q 01/05

With which director did Toshiro Mifune make sixteen films?

A) Akira Kurosawa

B) Kenji Mizoguchi

C) Yasujirō Ozu

D) Masaki Kobayashi

Answer · why

A) Akira Kurosawa

Mifune said he had never done anything as an actor he was proud of except with him.

Q 02/05

In which present-day Chinese city was Mifune born in 1920?

A) Shanghai

B) Harbin

C) Qingdao

D) Dalian

Answer · why

C) Qingdao

His parents were Methodist missionaries in Japanese-occupied Shandong, and he spent his first 19 years in China.

Q 03/05

What business did Mifune's father run, in which the young Toshiro worked?

A) A sake brewery

B) A kendo school

C) A rice merchant's

D) A photography studio

Answer · why

D) A photography studio

Mifune later hoped to join Toho's camera department rather than act.

Q 04/05

Where did Mifune serve during World War II?

A) The Aerial Photography section of Army Aviation

B) A destroyer of the Imperial Navy

C) The Kempeitai military police

D) A tank regiment in Manchuria

Answer · why

A) The Aerial Photography section of Army Aviation

He later drew on his wartime experiences when asked to mime anger at his screen test.

Q 05/05

Mifune got into films through a 1947 new faces contest at which studio?

A) Nikkatsu

B) Toho

C) Daiei

D) Shochiku

Answer · why

B) Toho

A friend in the photography department sent in his resume; he was one of 49 accepted from about 4,000 applicants.