Kagemusha
"The Shadow of a man can never stand up and walk on its own."
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.
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Languages
Japanese
Status
Released
Budget
$6,000,000
Box Office
$4,000,000
Who's In It
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
Kōji Shimizu
Katsusuke Atobe
Sen Yamamoto
Nobushige Oyamada
Kumeko Otowa
Takemaru's Nurse
Kai Ato
Zenjiro Amemiya
Takashi Ebata
Monk
Yu Shimaka
Jingoro Hara
Jirô Chiba
Senkichi Ōmura
Takashi Shimura
Taguchi Gyobu
Kamatari Fujiwara
Doctor
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