Kagemusha

Kagemusha (1980)

The Shadow of a man can never stand up and walk on its own.

  • Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
  • Release Date: 1980-04-26
  • User Rating: 7.8/10 from 639 ratings
  • Runtime: 3h 0min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: TOHO
  • Production Country: Japan, United States of America
  • Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Summary

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.

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  • Tatsuya Nakadai

    as Shingen Takeda / Kagemusha
  • Tsutomu Yamazaki

    as Nobukado Takeda
  • Kenichi Hagiwara

    as Katsuyori Takeda
  • Jinpachi Nezu

    as Sohachiro Tsuchiya
  • Hideji Ōtaki

    as Masakage Yamagata
  • Daisuke Ryū

    as Nobunaga Oda
  • Masayuki Yui

    as Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Kaori Momoi

    as Otsuyanokata
  • Mitsuko Baisho

    as Oyunokata
  • Hideo Murota

    as Nobufusa Baba
  • Takayuki Shiho

    as Masatoyo Naito
  • Kōji Shimizu

    as Katsusuke Atobe
  • Daikei Shimizu

    as Masatane Hara
  • Sen Yamamoto

    as Nobushige Oyamada
  • Shuhei Sugimori

    as Masanobu Kosaka
  • Kota Yui

    as Takemaru
  • Yasuhito Yamanaka

    as Ranmaru Mori
  • Kumeko Otowa

    as Takemaru's Nurse
  • Tetsuo Yamashita

    as Nagahide Niwa
  • Kai Ato

    as Zenjiro Amemiya
  • Takashi Ebata

    as Monk
  • Yu Shimaka

    as Jingoro Hara
  • Toshiaki Tanabe

    as Kugutsushi
  • Naruhito Iguchi

    as
  • Yoshimitsu Yamaguchi

    as Salt Vendor
  • Eiichi Kanakubo

    as Kenshin Uesugi
  • Akihiko Sugizaki

    as Noda Castle Soldier
  • Yugo Miyazaki

    as
  • Masatsugu Kuriyama

    as
  • Norio Matsui

    as Tadatsugu Sakai
  • Jirô Chiba

    as
  • Yasushi Doshida

    as Kazumasa Ishikawa
  • Takashi Watanabe

    as
  • Toku Sone

    as Heihachiro Honda
  • Toshiya Ito

    as
  • Francis Selleck

    as Priest
  • Morihiro Yanase

    as
  • Alexander Kairis

    as
  • Toshimitsu Kato

    as
  • Paul Okawa

    as
  • Toshihiko Shimizu

    as
  • Senkichi Ōmura

    as
  • Takashi Shimura

    as Taguchi Gyobu
  • Kamatari Fujiwara

    as Doctor
Directing Akira Kurosawa Director
Writing Akira Kurosawa Screenplay
Production Akira Kurosawa Producer
Production Tomoyuki Tanaka Executive Producer
Production George Lucas Executive Producer
Production Francis Ford Coppola Executive Producer
Production Akira Kurosawa Executive Producer
Sound Shinichirô Ikebe Original Music Composer
Camera Shôji Ueda Director of Photography
Camera Takao Saitō Director of Photography
Writing Masato Ide Screenplay
Production Toshiaki Hashimoto Production Manager
Art Aki Saburagi Assistant Art Director
Costume & Make-Up Shigeo Tamura Hairstylist
Art Akira Kurosawa Storyboard Artist
Art Yoshirō Muraki Art Direction
Sound Ichirô Minami Sound Effects Editor
Costume & Make-Up Seiichiro Hagakusawa Costume Design
Editing Akira Kurosawa Editor
Sound Fumio Yanoguchi Sound Recordist
Lighting Takeji Sano Lighting Technician