Which of these Akira Kurosawa films does not feature Toshiro Mifune?

Toshiro Mifune (April 1920 - December 1997) was an actor who achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of the 20th century. Akira Kurosawa, the noted film director who liked to work with Mifune once said, “The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression. Toshiro Mifune needed only three feet.”

The filmmaker indeed gave Mifune a lot of space over the course of 16 film collaborations. This pair created some of the most dynamic characters ever put on-screen. Some of the best are in Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), and Yojimbo (1961). But Milfune had no role in the 1980 Kurosawa film, Kagemusha.

Kurosawa first took note of Mifune when he was 27, during an open audition at Toho Studios. He was soon cast in Snow Trail (1947), a film Kurosawa wrote for director Senkichi Taniguchi. Next, Kurosawa gave him the lead in Drunken Angel (1948) as a consumptive thug. After this film, Mifune did a variety of deeply felt roles for Kurosawa. They include: an artist hounded by paparazzi (Scandal, 1950); a bandit who may or not be a rapist and murderer (Rashomon); a loose cannon ronin who reluctantly protects a village (Seven Samurai); an elderly patriarch terrified of a second nuclear attack (I Live in Fear, 1955); and the wily, shiftless samurai (Yojimbo).

Now it is believed that Kurosawa’s greatest films are mostly unimaginable without Mifune’s bravado in them. The two worked professionally until 1965 then they parted ways.