Fresh
At worst, the film is an empty vessel that places blind trust in affected stillness and symmetry... the movie quite often switches on a dime to more deep and meaningful textures.
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
Kagemusha
The Shadow of a man can never stand up and walk on its own.
1980 · 3h · PG
Action, Drama, History, War
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
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Kagemusha
Overview
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 and cast
- Akira Kurosawa Director
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Shingen Takeda / Kagemusha
- Tsutomu Yamazaki as Nobukado Takeda
- Kenichi Hagiwara as Katsuyori Takeda
- Jinpachi Nezu as Sohachiro Tsuchiya
- Hideji Ōtaki as Masakage Yamagata
- Daisuke Ryū as Nobunaga Oda
- Masayuki Yui as Ieyasu Tokugawa
- Kaori Momoi as Otsuyanokata
- Mitsuko Baisho as Oyunokata
- Hideo Murota as Nobufusa Baba
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh
There are great images in this film.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
There is beauty in Kagemusha but it is impersonal, distant and ghostly. The old master has never been more rigorous.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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