Editing Toshiro Mifune (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Mifune-Toshiro-3.jpg|left|thumb|upright|Mifune in 1939]]

Toshiro Mifune was born on April 1, 1920, in [[Qingdao|Seitō]], Japanese-occupied [[Shandong]] (present-day Qingdao, [[China]]), the eldest son of Tokuzo and Sen Mifune.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Matsuda |first1=Michiko |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/868005686 |title=Samurai : hyōden Mifune Toshirō |last2=松田美智子 |year=2014 |isbn=978-4-16-390005-6 |pages=16 |publisher=文藝春秋 |oclc=868005686}}</ref> His father Tokuzo was a trade merchant and photographer who ran a photography business in [[Qingdao]] and [[Yingkou]], and was originally the son of a physician from Kawauchi, [[Akita Prefecture]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kobayashi |first1=Atsushi |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1097178065 |title=Mifune Toshirō no eigashi = Toshiro Mifune, 1920-1997 |last2=小林淳 |year=2019 |isbn=978-4-86598-063-9 |edition=Shohan |pages=24–25 |publisher=アルファベータブックス |oclc=1097178065}}</ref> His mother Sen was the daughter of a ''[[hatamoto]]'', a high-ranking [[samurai]] official.<ref name=":0" /> Toshiro's parents, who were working as [[Christianity in Japan|Methodist]] [[missionaries]], were some of the Japanese citizens encouraged to live in Shandong by the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese government]] during its occupation before the Republic of China took over the city in 1922.<ref>{{Cite web|title = 95 years ago today: Actor Toshiro Mifune born|url = http://akirakurosawa.info/2015/04/01/95-years-ago-today-actor-toshiro-mifune-born/ |website = Akira Kurosawa info|access-date = November 5, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Toshiro Mifune presented in Arts section|url = http://www.newsfinder.org/site/more/toshiro_mifune/ |website = News finder |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007131204/http://www.newsfinder.org/site/more/toshiro_mifune/ |archive-date=October 7, 2007 |access-date = April 29, 2022}}</ref> Mifune grew up with his parents and two younger siblings in [[Dalian]], [[Liaoning|Fengtian]] from the age of 4 to 19.<ref>{{cite book|title= International Stars at War| first1 = James E. Jr. | last1 = Wise| first2 = Scott | last2 = Baron|page=132}}</ref>

In his youth, Mifune worked at his father's photo studio. After spending the first 19 years of his life in [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|China]], as a Japanese citizen, he was drafted into the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] Aviation division, where he served in the Aerial Photography unit during [[World War II]].<ref name="jasper sharp">{{cite book|last1=Sharp|first1= Jasper |title=Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema|date=2011|publisher= Scarecrow Press|location= Lanham, MD |isbn= 978-0-81085795-7 |pages= 162–65 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=oAYsyZRRqzcC |access-date=July 19, 2015}}</ref>