Samurai Saga (1959)

Cyrano de Bergerac moved to feudal Japan, with Mifune under a prosthetic nose as the poet-swordsman who answers insults with verse and a blade. It is a rare chance to see him play wounded vanity and romantic longing for laughs and then for tears, often in the same scene. Inagaki keeps the play's shape, so anyone who knows the story will recognize the balcony-style wooing done on another man's behalf. Come for the novelty, stay for how sincerely Mifune commits to it.