Mifune, who loved booze nearly as much as fast cars, remains something of an enigma but the doc argues for his inclusion in the pantheon of the world’s finest great actors. Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese turn up to sing the praises of the 16 Kurosawa/Mifune collaborations, including “Rashomon,” “The Seven Samurai” and “Yojimbo,” which are sampled generously with lengthy clips.
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While there’s plenty of fresh information about Mifune’s hardscrabble early years and his decision to turn down a role in “Star Wars,” the heart of the movie is the actor’s complicated bond with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Mifune – The Last Samurai (2016, Strand, unrated, $30): Keanu Reeves narrates this perceptive documentary about the late, great Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune. The end result is a timely treatise which argues that racism is damaging both to the oppressors and the oppressed. Jackson reads from Baldwin’s notes while Peck delivers footage of both the Hollywood movies which shaped Baldwin and the civil rights activists who inspired him.
I Am Not Your Negro (2016, Magnolia, unrated, $25): Directed by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck and produced by his brother, Voorhees resident Hebert Peck, an assistant director of the Rutgers University Television Network, this astonishingly perceptive documentary pivots on author James Baldwin, whose unfinished manuscript about slain leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King is used to illuminate contemporary race relations.
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