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Release Date: 1980   Duration: 179 min

Cast: Mitsuko Baisho, Daisuke Ryu, Takayuki Shiho, Hideji Otaki, Jinpachi Nezu, Noboru Shimizu, Hideo Murota, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Shuhei Sugimori, Kaori Momoi, Masayuki Yui, Tatsuya Nakadai ...MORE

Cast: Mitsuko Baisho, Daisuke Ryu, Takayuki Shiho, Hideji Otaki, Jinpachi Nezu, Noboru Shimizu, Hideo Murota, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Shuhei Sugimori, Kaori Momoi, Masayuki Yui, Tatsuya Nakadai, Sen Yamamoto, Kenichi Hagiwara ...LESS

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Kagemusha is a 1980 film by Akira Kurosawa. In Japanese, kagemusha is a term used to denote a political decoy. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a dying warlord in order to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. The warlord whom the kagemusha impersonates is based on daimyo...  MORE

Kagemusha is a 1980 film by Akira Kurosawa. In Japanese, kagemusha is a term used to denote a political decoy. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a dying warlord in order to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. The warlord whom the kagemusha impersonates is based on daimyo Takeda Shingen, and the film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino. LESS