00:00Toshiro Mifune, actor, legend, a Kurosawa regular who defined the Samurai flick in the
00:06post war era.
00:07Mifune spent most of his career in Japan, but he did make a few flicks in the US too,
00:12scarcely few of which actually understood the gravity of his talent.
00:16There is one thankfully that did, John Borman's Hell in the Pacific, a World War 2 film that
00:23cast Mifune opposite Lee Marvin, both as enemy fighter pilots who have crashed on a deserted
00:27island.
00:28Hell in the Pacific was another genius collaboration between Borman and Marvin, who had also worked
00:34together on Point Blank and it features barely any dialogue, with Marvin and Mifune's characters
00:39navigating their plight through frustrated attempts at understanding and eventually learning
00:44to live with the other.
00:46Bombing at the box office and getting a tepid critical response when it released in 1968,
00:50Hell in the Pacific is still sadly overlooked to this day.
00:53If you like Mifune and Marvin and Borman's collaborations at your jam, don't skip it.
