The Important Man (1961)

This is a strange movie in many ways, perhaps mostly because Toshirō Mifune is playing the movie's protagonist. Animas Trujano is a Steinbeckian sort of tale, and it is, in many ways, indebted to Roberto Gavaldón's Macario, which came out the year before this film. Indeed, Mexican cinema, in the early '60s (at the end of the Época de Oro) was fascinating, and Animas Trujano, like Macario and Tlayucan, which would come out a year later, is about poverty and wealth, village honor, the meddling of the church, and a protagonist who can't quite get his shit together. Tlayucan is definitely the best of these three films, but Animas is worth a watch, for Mifune as well as for Columba Domínguez, who plays Animas's longsuffering wife Juana.

IMDB says that actor and director Narciso Busquets dubbed the voice of Toshirō Mifune. The syncing is really perfect. It is easy to forget that Mifune didn't speak Spanish and that he learned his lines phonetically.