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When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, and then finds himself haunted by the warlord’s spirit as well as his own ambitions. In his late color masterpiece Kagemusha, 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 historical epic that is also a meditation on the nature of power.
Original Release
04/26/1980
US Release
10/10/1980
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Tatsuya Nakadai | Kagemusha / Shingen Takeda |
Tsutomu Yamazaki | Nobukado Takeda |
Ken'ichi Hagiwara | Katsuyori Takeda |
Jinpachi Nezu | Sohachiro Tsuchiya |
Hideji Ôtaki | Masakage Yamagata |
Daisuke Ryu | Nobunaga Oda |
Masayuki Yui | Ieyasu Tokugawa |
Kaori Momoi | Otsuyanokata |
Mitsuko Baisho | Oyunokata |
Hideo Murota | Nobufusa Baba |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tatsuya Nakadai | Kagemusha / Shingen Takeda |
Tsutomu Yamazaki | Nobukado Takeda |
Ken'ichi Hagiwara | Katsuyori Takeda |
Jinpachi Nezu | Sohachiro Tsuchiya |
Hideji Ôtaki | Masakage Yamagata |
Daisuke Ryu | Nobunaga Oda |
Masayuki Yui | Ieyasu Tokugawa |
Kaori Momoi | Otsuyanokata |
Mitsuko Baisho | Oyunokata |
Hideo Murota | Nobufusa Baba |
Takayuki Shiho | Masatoyo Naito |
Kôji Shimizu | Katsusuke Atobe |
Noboru 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 Atô | Zenjiro Amemiya |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Francis Ford Coppola | Executive Producer |
Akira Kurosawa | Executive Producer |
George Lucas | Executive Producer |
Tomoyuki Tanaka | Executive Producer |
Audie Bock | Producer |
Akira Kurosawa | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1981 | Oscar | Best Art Direction-Set Decoration | Nominated |
1981 | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated |
1981 | Golden Globe | Best Foreign Film | Nominated |