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Kagemusha (1980)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
“The Shadow of a man can never stand up and walk on its own.”
Action, Drama, History, War · 3h 00m
A feudal epic presenting the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. The impostor becomes comfortable living his life among nobility, but his responsibilities to his station grow more demanding the longer he occupies it.
Cast
Tatsuya Nakadai
Shingen Takeda / Kagemusha
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Nobukado Takeda
Kenichi Hagiwara
Katsuyori Takeda
Jinpachi Nezu
Sohachiro Tsuchiya
Hideji Ōtaki
Masakage Yamagata
Daisuke Ryū
Nobunaga Oda
Masayuki Yui
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Kaori Momoi
Otsuyanokata
Mitsuko Baisho
Oyunokata
Hideo Murota
Nobufusa Baba
T
Takayuki Shiho
Masatoyo Naito
Kōji Shimizu
Katsusuke Atobe
Crew
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenplay
- Akira Kurosawa, Masato Ide
- Director of Photography
- Shoji Ueda, Takao Saitō
- Original Music Composer
- Shinichiro Ikebe
- Editor
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Akira Kurosawa
Details
- Original title
- 影武者
- Release date
- 1980-04-26
- Runtime
- 3h 00m
- Genres
- Action, Drama, History, War
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan, United States of America
- Production
- TOHO, 20th Century Fox, Kurosawa Production
- Budget
- $6,000,000
- Box office
- $4,000,000