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Kagemusha
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
PG
1980
3h
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7.9
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When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom.
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Cast of Kagemusha
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
Takayuki Shiho
Masatoyo Naito
Kōji Shimizu
Katsusuke Atobe
Daikei Shimizu
Masatane Hara
Sen Yamamoto
Nobushige Oyamada
Shuhei Sugimori
Masanobu Kosaka
Kota Yui
Takemaru
Yasuhito Yamanaka
Ranmaru Mori
Kumeko Otowa
Takemaru's Nurse
Tetsuo Yamashita
Nagahide Niwa
Kai Ato
Zenjiro Amemiya
Takashi Ebata
Monk
Yu Shimaka
Jingoro Hara
Toshiaki Tanabe
Kugutsushi
Naruhito Iguchi
Yoshimitsu Yamaguchi
Salt Vendor
Eiichi Kanakubo
Kenshin Uesugi
Akihiko Sugizaki
Noda Castle Soldier
Yugo Miyazaki
Masatsugu Kuriyama
Norio Matsui
Tadatsugu Sakai
Jirô Chiba
Yasushi Doshida
Kazumasa Ishikawa
Takashi Watanabe
Toku Sone
Heihachiro Honda
Toshiya Ito
Francis Selleck
Priest
Morihiro Yanase
Alexander Kairis
Toshimitsu Kato
Paul Okawa
Toshihiko Shimizu
Senkichi Ōmura
Takashi Shimura
Taguchi Gyobu
Kamatari Fujiwara
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Kagemusha Ratings & Reviews
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
Kagemusha, much like the similarly overblown but handsomely mounted Lawrence of Arabia, is an epic with a cipher in its point position.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Though not as overall impressive as his next picture Ran, Kagemusha, Akira Kurosawa's return to the epic Samurai film deservedly received Oscar nominations for its great pictorial beauty and other production values.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
A fine example of the Kurosawa style...precision of narrative in both scripting and imagistic storytelling... [Blu-ray]
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There are great images in this film.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
There is beauty in Kagemusha but it is impersonal, distant and ghostly. The old master has never been more rigorous.
Cinemania
Dan Jardine
The film swings like a pendulum between stillness and action, an occasionally jarring mix of David Lean-like panoramas with intimate character study.
Filmcritic.com
David Thomas
Nakadai's performance as Kagemusha and Shingen is impressive, creating two distinct characters, one of whom eerily mimics the other
Washington Post
Gary Arnold
"Kagemusha" is such a gratifying come-back picture for a justifiably revered filmmaker that one feels churlish harboring certain reservations.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Excellent historical drama shows Kurosawa's broad range of gifts and skill.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Leo Goldsmith
Here, as in all of Kurosawa's late films, this sense of hopeless fixity renders unconvincing any hope for human agency.
Eye for Film
Amber Wilkinson
Despite its length, it never drags.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Dragan Antulov
A powerful film.
eFilmCritic.com
Brian Mckay
Dull and plodding presentation of an interesting period of Japanese history.
Asian Movie Pulse
Panos Kotzathanasis
From the symbolic opening to the haunting final battle, "Kagemusha" remains a triumph, a brushstroke on the canvas of cinema's finest.
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