Toshiro Mifune died of organ failure in 1997 at the age of 77, but the impenetrable death barrier did not stop Capcom Digitally peel The similarity of the legendary actor Onimusha: Way of the Sword.
“The hero of this game is a fierce young samurai, still passing from one bloody and rough fight to the next”, The Game’s Official website Reads. “To strengthen this picture of a striking samurai, Capcom turned to the late, iconic Japanese legend of the Samurai film Toshiro Mifune on Christmas as a face model to make Miyamoto Musashi.”
This should not be a surprise for those who watched Onimusha Anime on Netflix at the end of 2023, because Miyamoto Musashi also appeared there. The creators of the series were similarly proud of the digital necromance, which they performed to move the face of Mifune from the real world to animation in the marketing campaign leading to its release.
Onimusha as a series of video games is not alien to the employ of actors, both dead and living for their heroes. Takeshi Kaneshiro played in Samonosuke Akechi in Onimusha: WarlordsWhile subsequent installments used Yūsaku Matsuda (who died of bladder cancer in 1989 at the age of 40) and Jean Reno as face models for his heroes.
Mifune appearance in Onimusha: Samurai method It ended with the full cooperation of Mifune Productions, a company that the actor founded in 1962 and which is probably the owner of his similarity.
