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Watch trailer for Kagemusha
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Kagemusha
Director: Akira Kurosawa Run Time: 180 min. Format: 35mm Release Year: 1980 Language: Japanese
Starring: Hideji Ôtaki, Jinpachi Nezu, Kenichi Hagiwara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Late Kurosawa that lives on the grandest side of epic – and that’s two words to describe it’s gargantuan scale (ok, now it’s three). An exact lookalike comes in to protect/stand in for a powerful warlord. It’s theatre, it’s film, it’s opera. You must.