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Kagemusha [Special Edition]

DVD - APPROX. 180 MINS. - 1980 - US Rating: NR

Main feature:

Release Mar 29, 2005
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Anamorphic - Enhanced for Widescreen TVs.
Audio Japanese: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1980

Special features:

  • DISC ONE
  • Audio commentary by Stephen Prince, author of The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
  • Theatrical Trailers and teasers
  • DISC TWO
  • Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa (19 minutes, 2005), directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss Kurosawa and their roles as executive producers of Kagemusha
  • A 41-minute documentary on the making of Kagemusha, part of the Toto Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
  • Image: Kurosawa's Continuity, a 43-minute video piece reconstructing Kagemusha through Kurosawa's paintings and sketches
  • A series of Suntory Whiskey commercials made on the set of Kagemusha
  • A gallery of storyboards painted by Kurosawa and images of their realization on-screen.
  • PLUS: a 48 page booklet featuring a new essay by scholar Peter Grilli, a reprinted 1981 interview with Kurosawa by renowned critic Tony Rayns, and biographical sketches by Japanese film historian Donald Richie.

Synopsis:



In his late, color masterpiece Kagemusha, Akira Kurosawa returned to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his career - the play between illusion and reality. Sumptuously reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a historical epic that is also a meditation on the nature of power. The Criterion Collection is proud to present Kagemusha for the first time in its full-length version in the United States.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Jack OakieTatsuya NakadaiTsutomu Yamazaki"Kagemusha"
Written byMasato IdeWritten byAkira Kurosawadirected byAkira Kurosawa
Production Year: 1980

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