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Kagemusha

“The Shadow of a man can never stand up and walk on its own.”

19803h 0mAction · Drama · History

Released

April 26, 1980

7.8

TMDB Score

78% match · 776 votes

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About the Movie

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Synopsis

A feudal epic presenting the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. The impostor becomes comfortable living his life among nobility, but his responsibilities to his station grow more demanding the longer he occupies it.

DirectorAkira Kurosawa

Released: April 26, 1980
Runtime: 3h 0m
Status: Released
Original language: Japanese
Budget: $6.0M
Box office: $4.0M
Studios: TOHO, 20th Century Fox, Kurosawa Production

Top Billed Cast

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

TS

Takayuki Shiho

Masatoyo Naito

Kōji Shimizu

Katsusuke Atobe

DS

Daikei Shimizu

Masatane Hara

Sen Yamamoto

Nobushige Oyamada

SS

Shuhei Sugimori

Masanobu Kosaka

KY

Kota Yui

Takemaru

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