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Kagemusha (影武者, Shadow Warrior) is a 1980 epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate the dying daimyō Takeda Shingen to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan.
Oct 10, 1980 · Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu. A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double.
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- Drama, History, War
- Akira Kurosawa
- 1980-10-10
Dec 6, 2020 · Kagemusha. When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, and then finds himself haunted by the warlord’s spirit as well as his own ambitions. In his late color masterpiece Kagemusha,Akira Kurosawa returns to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his career—the play between illusion and reality.
- 180 min
"Kagemusha" is a samurai drama by the director who "Kagemusha" is a samurai drama by the director who most successfully introduced the genre to the West (with such classics as "The Seven Samurai" and "Yojimbo"), and who, at the age of seventy, made an epic that dares to wonder what meaning the samurai code -- or any human code -- really has in the life of an individual man.
Kagemusha won numerous honours in Japan and abroad, marking the beginning of Kurosawa's most successful decade in international awards, the 1980s. In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter ranked the film ...
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- Akira Kurosawa
- PG
- Tatsuya Nakadai
Jun 10, 2020 · The Kagemusha, once nothing but a petty thief, takes up arms against the Oda clan and is shot dead. Kurosawa’s shadow play . Kagemusha is a meticulously paced tragedy revolving around one man’s identity imprinting itself on the lives of others. Kurosawa and his two cinematographers Takao Saitô and Shôji Ueda achieve this through strategic ...
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Feb 26, 2018 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki and Ken'ichi Hagiwara.Kagemusha Blu-ray (Criterion) https://www.criterion.com/films/948Kag...
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