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Kagemusha (blu ray) standard edition

Kagemusha (blu ray) standard edition

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Director: Akira Kurosawa

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, and Daisuke Ryu

Region: B

Label: Criterion

In his late masterpiece KAGEMUSHA (1980), director Akira Kurosawa returns to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his career—the play between illusion and reality.

When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, and then finds himself haunted by the warlord’s spirit as well as his own ambitions. 

Sumptuously reconstructing the splendour of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a historical epic that is also a meditation on the nature of power.

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Special Features

  • Audio commentary by Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
  • Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa, an interview piece from 2005 in which directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss Kurosawa and Kagemusha
  • Documentary from 2003 on the making of the film
  • Image: Kurosawa’s Continuity, a piece from 1993 reconstructing Kagemusha through Kurosawa’s paintings and sketches
  • Suntory Whisky commercials made on the set of Kagemusha
  • Gallery of storyboards painted by Kurosawa and images of their realization on-screen
  • Theatrical trailers and teasers
  • Plus: An essay by scholar Peter Grilli (DVD and Blu-ray), and an interview with Kurosawa by renowned critic Tony Rayns (Blu-ray only)
    Cover painting by Akira Kurosawa

Technical Specifications

  • Picture: 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 4.0 soundtrack
  • Language: Japanese (with English Subtitles)
  • Runtime: 180 minutes


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