Kagemusha : (the shadow warrior)

The Resource Kagemusha : (the shadow warrior)
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Kagemusha : (the shadow warrior)
Title remainder
(the shadow warrior)
Statement of responsibility
Janus Films ; 20th Century Fox ; Toho Films and Kurosawa Productions ; produced by Akira Kurosawa and Tomoyuki Tanaka ; international version produced by Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Masato Ide ; directed by Akira Kurosawa
Title variation
  • Shadow warrior
  • AK100: 25 films by Akira Kurosawa
  • Twenty-five films by Akira Kurosawa
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  • jpn
  • eng
  • jpn
Summary
In his late, color masterpiece, 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 meditation on the nature of power
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NDD
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videorecording
Credits note
Cinematography by Takao Saito and Masahura Ueda ; music by Shinichiro Ikebe
Language note
In Japanese with optional subtitles in English
PerformerNote
Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu, Hideji Otaki, Daisuke Ryu, Masayuki Yui, Kaori Momoi, Mitsuko Baisho, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara
Series statement
  • AK100 ; disc 24
  • 25 films by Akira Kurosawa
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