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"At one point Mifune captures Marvin and enslaves him, but he finds he's haunted by Lee's eyes, which follows him everywhere."

"Later, Marvin turns the tables on Mifune and, like Mifune, he finds it more difficult to be the master than the slave."

Rather, they wanted to show that two men who had formed such a bond could not possibly kill one another, and so conceived a dénouement inspired by the final lines of T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men." Which ends "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper," as the two men, once again faced with the reality of the war, walk off in different directions.

"I wanted to illustrate this by having Lee try to have Toshiro fetch a stick. Treat him like a dog. It was Lee's idea to become the dog himself."

According to Japanese quiz show 'Did You Know?!' (知ってるつもり?!), Mifune was instructed by director John Boorman to cry upon seeing a photograph of a dead Japanese soldier published in Life magazine, but he strongly opposed this, saying:

BEN-HUR (1959) | dir. William Wyler

I'm not the Arab Revolt, Ali. I'm not even Arab.

Lee Marvin as Kid Shelleen / Tim Strawn - Cat Ballou (1965)