“Show Me the Mifune”
Poster for Akira Kurosawa’s classic “The Seven Samurai.” What better way to pay tribute to a towering icon of Japanese cinema like Toshiro Mifune than with the hackiest, most groan-worthy pun imaginable?*
*I’ve heard Mifune pronounced several different ways. But the most commonly accepted version seems to be Me-foo-nay. That’s how Spielberg, Scorsese and John Milius say it. Who am I to argue?
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