Kagemusha
Released
April 26, 1980
Runtime: 3h 0m
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.
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Cast & Crew
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
- TS
Takayuki Shiho
Masatoyo Naito
Kōji Shimizu
Katsusuke Atobe
- DS
Daikei Shimizu
Masatane Hara
Sen Yamamoto
Nobushige Oyamada
- SS
Shuhei Sugimori
Masanobu Kosaka
- KY
Kota Yui
Takemaru
- YY
Yasuhito Yamanaka
Ranmaru Mori
Kumeko Otowa
Takemaru's Nurse
Akira Kurosawa
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
- MI
Masato Ide
Screenplay
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