"There is literally never a dull shot. And he found in Toshiro Mifune, star of Rashomon and 15 other films in the Kurosawa canon, an antic presence with acting strokes to match. Mifune’s performance is as vivid as a Japanese ideogram. (Note for Kurosawa biographical completists: he studied calligraphy and kendo swordplay as a child.)"

https://www.ft.com/content/29b63a0f-3c30-4de9-9456-fa48118978ff