Kagemusha (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 3 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 18, 2009
- Originally Released: 1980
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tatsuya Nakadai | |
Performer: | Takashi Shimura, Kenichi Hagiwara & Tsutomu Yamazaki | |
Directed by | Akira Kurosawa | |
Screenwriting by | Masato Ide & Akira Kurosawa | |
Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka & Akira Kurosawa | |
Director of Photography: | Kazuo Miyagawa | |
Executive Production by | Francis Ford Coppola & George Lucas |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1980 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Kagemusha, much like the similarly overblown but handsomely mounted Lawrence of Arabia, is an epic with a cipher in its point position.
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Slant Magazine
...[Kurosawa's] most physically elaborate, most awesome film, full of magnificent views....Majestic...
New York Times
Rating: B+ --
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.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Here, as in all of Kurosawa's late films, this sense of hopeless fixity renders unconvincing any hope for human agency.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Excellent historical drama shows Kurosawa's broad range of gifts and skill.
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Classic Film and Television
3 stars out of 5 -- Primarily a chamber piece shot in muted tones, it switches to exaggerated colour for a couple of large-scale battles...
Total Film
[S]hot in spectacular fashion. The use of colour and landscape is hugely impressive...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
In this dazzling epic from Akira Kurosawa, a petty thief named Kagemusha (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets saved from a death sentence because he resembles the warlord Shingen Takeda (also Nakadai). The warlord has been fighting two other leaders for control of 16th-century Japan and impersonators often take his place during battles to put him out of harm's way. Because of Kagemusha's strong physical similarities to the warlord, he's a perfect choice for a "shadow warrior." However, the arrangement suddenly changes when Shingen gets fatally wounded while watching a battle. Adhering to Shingen's final wish, the warlord's men keep the death a secret, and Kagemusha struggles to transform himself from a criminal into a leader.
KAGEMUSHA marked a welcome return for the legendary director, who had not made a movie since 1974. Nakadai, a supporting player in earlier Kurosawa films, expertly portrays the leading role(s), almost always filled in the past by ToshirĂ´ Mifune. KAGEMUSHA also features the final screen appearance of longtime Kurosawa actor, Takashi Shimura. In order to help the film get an international release, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas served as executive producers.
KAGEMUSHA marked a welcome return for the legendary director, who had not made a movie since 1974. Nakadai, a supporting player in earlier Kurosawa films, expertly portrays the leading role(s), almost always filled in the past by ToshirĂ´ Mifune. KAGEMUSHA also features the final screen appearance of longtime Kurosawa actor, Takashi Shimura. In order to help the film get an international release, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas served as executive producers.
Product Description:
In his late color masterpiece "Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)," director Akira Kurosawa returned to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his celebrated career-the play between illusion and reality. Sumptuously reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic that is also a somber meditation on the nature of power.
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