Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 180 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
- japan
- samurai
- army
- emperor
- warlord
- battle
- impersonation
- doppelgänger
- jidaigeki
- edo period
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Takayuki Shiho — Masatoyo Naito
- Kōji Shimizu — Katsusuke Atobe
- Daikei Shimizu — Masatane Hara
- Sen Yamamoto — Nobushige Oyamada
- Shuhei Sugimori — Masanobu Kosaka
- Directed
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written
- Masato Ide, Akira Kurosawa
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 763 ratings
- Studio
- TOHO, 20th Century Fox, Kurosawa Production
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