Now there's a sequence right at the beginning of the film in which our hero, Agaguk, kills a polar bear with a knife and brings home the pelt, which his father, the shaman, gives to the white man, who was a French-Canadian actor, gives it to him to pay off his debts for alcohol. Well, this leads to a great row between Agaguk and his father, a very dramatic scene, and gosh, working with Mifune, I was so impressed with his screen presence. He had this marvellous screen presence, absolutely riveting on screen, but there were sort of strange contradictions because he had a full beard and the Inuit don't have facial hair, so he was the only man in the cast with facial hair. We had a lot of real Inuit in the... playing the crowd scenes and one or two dialogue scenes, so we just had Toshiro Mifune with a... with a speckled beard and... and he was just marvellous, but he didn't speak any English, or just a few words, so his dialogue had to be worked out with a dialogue coach from Los Angeles who... who was Japanese but spoke perfect English, and all his dialogue had to be worked out phonetically. And we had idiot boards all round the set so he had to go from one idiot board to the other to get his dialogue right; which was incredibly difficult. I mean he did it very well but it was incredibly difficult to get it done, but it was worth it because of the sheer presence of the man.