The world is vast and boundless. Be steadfast.

by chuckofish

Daughter #1 usually posts on Wednesdays, but her internet was out last night so she could not write her post about the Missouri State Fair as she had planned. C’est la vie.

I was not prepared to write a post on short notice so I will just note that I DVR’d, as planned, all the samurai movies which TCM ran on Toshiro Mifune day last week. Last night I watched Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954), directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring Toshiro Mifune.

It won the Academy Award for outstanding foreign film that year and they got that right.

Personally, I really love Toshiro Mifune, and I would even go so far as to say he is in the Top Five of my all-time favorite actors. (Who are the other four you ask? That is a post for another day.)

And here’s a samurai poem by Robert Pinsky.