Kagemusha (1980)
Kagemusha (1980)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
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
Yoshimitsu Yamaguchi
Salt Vendor
Eiichi Kanakubo
Kenshin Uesugi
Akihiko Sugizaki
Noda Castle Soldier
Norio Matsui
Tadatsugu Sakai
Yasushi Doshida
Kazumasa Ishikawa
Toku Sone
Heihachiro Honda
Francis Selleck
Priest
Takashi Shimura
Taguchi Gyobu
Kamatari Fujiwara
Doctor
Akira Kurosawa
Director / Screenplay / Producer / Executive Producer / Storyboard Artist / Editor
Francis Ford Coppola
Executive Producer
George Lucas
Executive Producer
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Executive Producer
Shinichirô Ikebe
Original Music Composer
Takao Saitō
Director of Photography
Shôji Ueda
Director of Photography
Masato Ide
Screenplay
Toshiaki Hashimoto
Production Manager
Aki Saburagi
Assistant Art Director
Shigeo Tamura
Hairstylist
Yoshirō Muraki
Art Direction
Seiichiro Hagakusawa
Costume Design
Fumio Yanoguchi
Sound Recordist
Ichirô Minami
Sound Effects Editor
Takeji Sano
Lighting Technician
Toshimitsu Kato
Toshiya Ito
Takashi Watanabe
Jirô Chiba
Toshihiko Shimizu
Paul Okawa
Alexander Kairis
Morihiro Yanase
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 26, 1980
Original Name影武者
StatusReleased
Running Time3h
Content RatingPG
Budget$6,000,000
Box Office$4,000,000
Filming LocationsJapan
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Kagemusha (影武者, Shadow Warrior) is a 1980 epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate the dying daimyō Takeda Shingen to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. Kagemusha is the Japanese term for a political decoy, literally meaning "shadow warrior". The film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.
The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival (tied with All That Jazz). It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and received other honours. In 2009 the film was voted at No. 59 on the list of The Greatest Japanese Films of All Time by Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo.