Kagemusha Movie Review 1980

A thief is rescued from the gallows because of his striking resemblance to a warlord in 16th Century Japan. When the ambitious warlord is fatally wounded, the thief is required to pose as the warlord. In Japanese with English subtitles.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 160 minutes.
Originally from Japanese.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Period Piece: 16th Century, Role Reversal

Screenplay

Akira Kurosawa, Masato Ide

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Hideji Otaki

Cinematography

Kazuo Miyagawa, Masaharu Ueda

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Music

Shinichiro Ikebe

Awards

British Acad. 1980: Director (Kurosawa); Cannes 1980: Film; Cesar 1981: Foreign Film.