Kagemusha (1980) - The Shadow of a man can never stand up and walk on its own.

Kagemusha

The Shadow of a man can never stand up and walk on its own.
( Action / Drama / History / War )

US Runtime: 180 min

Country of Origin: Japan / United States of America

Premiere Date:
Apr 26, 1980 [Japan]

Director:	Akira Kurosawa [Director]

Writers:	Masato Ide [Screenplay] Akira Kurosawa [Screenplay]

Producers:	Francis Ford Coppola [Executive Producer] Akira Kurosawa [Producer] Akira Kurosawa [Executive Producer] George Lucas [Executive Producer] Tomoyuki Tanaka [Executive Producer]

Cinematography:	Takao Saitô [Director of Photography] Shôji Ueda [Director of Photography]

Edited by:	Akira Kurosawa [Editor]

Music Composed by	Shinichirô Ikebe [Original Music Composer]

Costume Design:	Seiichiro Hagakusawa [Costume Design]

Production Companys:	20th Century Fox (US) Kurosawa Production (JP) TOHO (JP)

Plot Summary:

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

Cast:

Tatsuya Nakadai Shingen Takeda / Kagemusha Tsutomu Yamazaki Nobukado Takeda Kenichi Hagiwara Katsuyori Takeda Jinpachi Nezu Sohachiro Tsuchiya Hideji Otaki Masakage Yamagata Daisuke Ryu Nobunaga Oda Masayuki Yui Ieyasu Tokugawa Kaori Momoi Otsuyanokata Mitsuko Baisho Oyunokata Hideo Murota Nobufusa Baba Takayuki Shiho Masatoyo Naito Koji 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 Naruhito Iguchi Yoshimitsu Yamaguchi Salt Vendor Eiichi Kanakubo Kenshin Uesugi Akihiko Sugizaki Noda Castle Soldier Yugo Miyazaki Masatsugu Kuriyama Norio Matsui Tadatsugu Sakai Jirô Chiba Yasushi Doshida Kazumasa Ishikawa Takashi Watanabe Toku Sone Heihachiro Honda Toshiya Ito Francis Selleck Priest Morihiro Yanase Alexander Kairis Toshimitsu Kato Paul Okawa Toshihiko Shimizu Senkichi Omura Takashi Shimura Taguchi Gyobu Kamatari Fujiwara Doctor

Sound Crew:

Ichirô Minami Sound Effects Editor		Fumio Yanoguchi Sound Recordist

Art Department:

Akira Kurosawa Storyboard Artist		Aki Saburagi Assistant Art Director

Camera and Electrical Department:

Takeji Sano Lighting Technician

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