Directed by Akira Kurosawa, Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980) is an epic historical war drama set during Japans Sengoku era. Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, the film follows a thief recruited to impersonate the dying warlord Takeda Shingen in order to preserve political stability and military power. The film won the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival and became one of Akira Kurosawas most internationally celebrated late-period works. Combining large-scale battle sequences with political and psychological themes, the film remains a landmark of Japanese historical cinema.

Criterion Collection

When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, and then finds himself haunted by the warlords 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.

Från IMDB:
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lords double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

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Version: : Blu-Ray (import)

Språk : Japanese

EAN : 5050629680232

Label : Criterion Collection

Distributor : Criterion Collection

Inspelningsår : 1980

imdb-rating : 7.9

Längd : 3h 0m