What happened to Mifune and Kurosowa teamwork?

There was probably a lot of discussion about this amazing film before, however because it is old, there are fewer recently.

Anyway I am here because I am going to rent this movie again, because I feel that this movie has moved me so much. It has leveled me with great compassion and has taught me a different perspective on what life really is.

I remember when I was new to akira kurosawa, I asked the same questions.

If you want to find out further about his life or relationship with Mifune, I suggest for you to check out IMDB's own biography of the great director.
You can also find info from stephen prince's commentaries, or do a search on the internet regarding the two.

That is how I found out. I dont want to get into detail over it because I think it would be better explained by some other source, but basically they did have a falling out after this movie.
It is said that Red Beard may be his pinnacle picture, containing Mifune at his pinnacle too.

Check out my posts in this thread (author name "colwood"),

http://imdb.com/name/nm0000041/board/thread/2445837

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Here is what I remember reading somewhere:

The movie took an unusually long time to film. It was an epic, and the most expensive Japanese movie up to that time.

Mifune was required to grow a beard for the film.

He had the opportunity to make two or three other movies during the year that it took him for this one. Common practice to film more than one movie at a time in Japan at that time.

The schedules fit. He could fit the filming of the other movies into the schedule for this one. The only thing required, that he shave the beard to play those other roles.

He asked Kurosawa if he could finish Redbeard, using a false beard. Kurosawa refused. He felt a false beard would ruin the realism of the film.

Mifune ended up losing three other movies because of this one, and felt that he had basically been enslaved for a year, because Kurosawa wouldn't let him use a false beard.

This is remembered, not recently looked up. (Could be apocryphal). If true, a pity. I would have put up with a false beard for more Kurosawa/Mifune link-ups.

"Ran" with Mifune? Imagine.

Dude/dudette -

You call Rashomon overhyped? Nothing has offended me more in the last 6 and a half years and I never expected that from some one on a Kurosawa film post.