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Some of those old time character actors were really good. My favorite is Fujiwara Kamatari, who was in just about every PCL/Toho movie from 1933 to 1965, and quite a few after that. He had a sly and idiosyncratic manner of speaking which made him quite funny. You can see him in a bunch of Kurosawa movies, but i don't think he was well suited to Kurosawa, who wanted over-the-top emotion. (Mifune is much better in non-Kurosawa films.) Fujiwara was the lead in "Tabi yakusha" (Travelling actors) 1940, where he played a misunderstood & underappreciated pantomime horse Artist. Just great!
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