37. TOSHIRO MIFUNE
Throne of Blood (1957)

For Akira Kurosawa, Mifune wriggled like a rodent (in Rashomon), went gonzo (in The Seven Samurai), and embodied a ronin's honor (in Yojimbo). But perhaps only in Kurosawa's revision of Macbeth did he take on tragic depth. Between the power lust in his eyes and the tenacity of his grip on his sword, Mifune is all hunger — until his hubris earns him a bellyful of arrows.