Toshirō Mifune was born in Qingdao, China, to Japanese parents, and grew up in the Chinese city of Dalian with his parents and two siblings, Although the young Mifune spent the first 19 years of his life in China, as a Japanese citizen he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army Aviation, where he served in the Aerial Photography (Ko-type) unit during World War II. He repatriated to Japan in 1946 and then he become an actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films, he is best known for his collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in films such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo. He is also popular for portraying Musashi Miyamoto in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy.


Mifune Toshiro

australian soldiers surrending to japanese tank crew of the Itoh Detachment in timor island, during the japanese invasion Australians prepared AT-guns positons, but the Japanese tankettes rushed into the column of the Australian HQ unit and stopped among them. Australians could not open fire against these tankettes. If they had fired, they would have hit friend soldiers. While they were embarrassed with the situation, a Japanese commander of the head tankette raised a hatch and shouted, "Surrender !". Australians unwillingly held up thier hands. A Japanese officer required an Australian commander to surrender the entire Australian force. Threatened by the Japanese, an Australian commander accepted it and orderd his troops to surrender. the Hayakawa unit followed to the tankettes received the Australian POWs. They were about one thousand men.

POWs

Mifune Toshiro with his ki-36 plane of the Aerial Photography (Ko-type) unit 
