Shingen Takeda/Kagemusha
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Kagemusha is a 1980 epic film by Akira Kurosawa about a thief who impersonates a feudal lord in Japan. The film won the Palme d'Or and depicts the Battle of Nagashino, where the Takeda clan was defeated by Oda forces.
Dec 6, 2020 · 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.
Oct 10, 1980 · A 1980 historical drama film by Akira Kurosawa about a thief who impersonates a samurai warlord in medieval Japan. The film depicts the political and military conflicts of the time, as well as the contrast between personality and office, and features a famous battle scene with matchlock rifles.
Feb 26, 2018 · Watch the original trailer of Kagemusha, a 1980 Japanese epic film directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film is based on the true story of a feudal lord who hires a bandit as his double.
"Kagemusha" is a samurai drama by the director who most successfully introduced the genre to the West (with such classics as "The Seven Samurai" and "Yojimbo"), and who, at the age of seventy, made an epic that dares to wonder what meaning the samurai code -- or any human code -- really has in the life of an individual man.
Shingen, a powerful warlord, has become as legendary as the motto emblazoned on his war banners: "Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as the fire, immovable as the mountain." As he ...
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief (Tatsuya Nakadai) who is recruited to impersonate Shingen (also Nakadai), an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by...
