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.
Crew and Cast
Akira KurosawaDirector
Tatsuya NakadaiShingen Takeda · Kagemusha
Tsutomu YamazakiNobukado Takeda
Kenichi HagiwaraKatsuyori Takeda
Jinpachi NezuSohachiro Tsuchiya
Hideji ŌtakiMasakage Yamagata
Daisuke RyūNobunaga Oda
Masayuki YuiIeyasu Tokugawa
Kaori MomoiOtsuyanokata
Mitsuko BaishoOyunokata
Hideo MurotaNobufusa BabaTakayuki ShihoMasatoyo Naito
Kōji ShimizuKatsusuke AtobeDaikei ShimizuMasatane Hara
Sen YamamotoNobushige OyamadaShuhei SugimoriMasanobu Kosaka
Kota YuiTakemaru
Yasuhito YamanakaRanmaru Mori
Kumeko OtowaTakemaru's NurseTetsuo YamashitaNagahide Niwa
Kai AtoZenjiro Amemiya
Takashi EbataMonk
Yu ShimakaJingoro HaraToshiaki TanabeKugutsushi
Naruhito Iguchi
Yoshimitsu YamaguchiSalt Vendor
Eiichi KanakuboKenshin Uesugi
Akihiko SugizakiNoda Castle Soldier
Yugo Miyazaki
Masatsugu Kuriyama
Norio MatsuiTadatsugu Sakai
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Info
- Original title
- 影武者
- Status
- Released
- Released
- 26 April 1980
- Runtime
- 3h
- Rating
- PG
- TMDB score
- 7.8 / 10 (776 votes)
Production
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writers
- Akira Kurosawa, Masato Ide
- Studios
- TOHO, 20th Century Fox, Kurosawa Production
- Countries
- Japan, United States of America
Box Office
- Budget
- $6.0M
- Revenue
- $4.0M
- Profit
- $2.0M loss
- Return
- 0.7×
Languages
- Original
- Japanese
- Spoken
- Japanese