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Kagemusha (1980)
When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, in order to protect his clan from appearing weak and vulnerable. But he finds himself haunted by the warlord’s spirit as well as his own ambitions.
Genre: War | History | Drama | Action
Country: Japan
themoviedb.org: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11953
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080979/
Director(s) / Writer(s):
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
Masato Ide
Cast:
Tatsuya Nakadai
Shingen Takeda / Kagemusha
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Nobukado Takeda
Jinpachi Nezu
Sohachiro Tsuchiya
Takashi Shimura
Taguchi Gyobu
Kenichi Hagiwara
Katsuyori Takeda
Hideji Ôtaki
Masakage Yamagata
Daisuke Ryû
Nobunaga Oda
Masayuki Yui
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Kaori Momoi
Otsuyanokata
Mitsuko Baisho
Oyunokata
Hideo Murota
Nobufusa Baba
Kôji Shimizu
Katsusuke Atobe
Takayuki Shiho
Masatoyo Naito
Noboru Shimizu
Masatane Hara
Sen Yamamoto
Nobushige Oyamada
And 18 more...
Also Known As:
Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior
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