Tatsuya Nakadai
Shingen Takeda/Kagemusha
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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 · A 1980 historical drama film by Akira Kurosawa about a thief who impersonates a samurai warlord in medieval Japan. The film features Tatsuya Nakadai, Nobukado Takeda, and Ken'ichi Hagiwara, and is based on actual historical events and battles.
- (38K)
- Drama, History, War
- Akira Kurosawa
- 1980-10-10
Dec 6, 2020 · 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. Sumptuously reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a historical epic that is also a meditation on the nature of power.
- 180 min
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Kagemusha. "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. His film ...
Marcos S Kagemusha stands as a crowning achievement in artistry by the hands of Akira Kurosawa—a sprawling, epic poem elevated by the enchanting and meticulously crafted...
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- Akira Kurosawa
- PG
- Tatsuya Nakadai
Kagemusha is a 1980 film by the legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, who explores the themes of illusion and reality in feudal Japan. The film follows a peasant thief who impersonates a warlord and faces the challenges of power and identity.
