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

Akira Kurosawa directed Mifune in sixteen films between 1948 and 1965, and Mifune said the only acting he was proud of was the work he did for Kurosaw...

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

Qingdao, in China's Shandong province, was where Mifune was born on 1 April 1920 to Japanese parents; he grew up in China and did not live in Japan un...

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

A photography studio was the family business: Mifune's father worked as a commercial photographer in China, and the son learned darkroom work there be...

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

The Aerial Photography section of Army Aviation used his darkroom skills; conscripted as a young man, he spent the war as a photographer at army airfi...

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

Toho ran the 1947 new faces contest; a friend in the studio's photography department sent in Mifune's papers, and he was accepted although he had want...