Kagemusha
- IMDb link: 0080979
- IMDb rating: 7.9 (41,120 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, War, History
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu and others
- Release date: 10 Oct 1980
- Release year: 1980
- Runtime: 162 minutes
- Country: Japan, United States
- Keywords: 16th century, doppelganger, deception, trick, 1570s, samurai, warrior, kendo, martial arts, multiple versions of same scene
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A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
In 1572, there is a civil war in Japan, and three powerful clans, leaded by the lords Shingen Takeda (Tatsuya Nakadai), Nobunaga Oda (Daisuke Ryu) and Ieyasu Tokugawa (Masayuki Yui), dispute the conquest of Kyoto. When Shingen is mortally wounded, the Takeda clan hides the incident and uses a poor thief to be the double of the strategist Shingen and keep the respect of their enemies. Along the years, Kagemusha incorporates the spirit of the warrior of the dead warlord.
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