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• Title:Kagemusha [videorecording] = Kagemusha (the shadow warrior) / seisaku chosaku Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Kurosawa Purodakushon sakuin ; seisaku Kurosawa Akira, Tanaka Tomoyuki ; kyakuhon, Kurosawa Akira, Ide Masato ; kantoku Kurosawa Akira = Toho Films and Kurosawa Productions present ; produced by Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and Masato Ide ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.
  
• ISBN:1559409541
  
• Edition:[Special ed.]
  
• Published/Created:[United States] : Criterion, [2005]
  
• Physical Description:2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (45 p. ; 19 cm.)
  

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  • Location:FILM ARCHIVE--Video Collection
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  • Call Number: videodvd 39002130730519
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: disc 1-disc 2,
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  • Call Number: videodvd 39002130730527
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: disc 1-disc 2,
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• Notes:Widescreen (letterbox format)
  Originally released as a motion picture in 1980.
  Special features: [disc 1] audio commentary by Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince. [disc 2] Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa (19 min., 2005 ; interview with Lucas and Coppola) ; 41 min. documentary on Kagemusha (part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create) ; Image: Kurosawa's Continuity (43 min. video that reconstructs Kagemusha through Kurosawa's paintings and sketches) ; Suntory commercials made on set ; storyboards. Booklet featuring new essay by Peter Grilli, an interview by Tony Rayns, and biographical sketches by Japanese film historian Donald Richie.
  Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.
  
• Summary:Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry or war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut Japanese version, not the shortened "international version" presented by 20th Century Fox.
  
• Variant and related titles:Kagemusha (the shadow warrior)
  Shadow warrior
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Series:Criterion collection ; 267
  Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 267.
  
• Credits:Music, Shinichiro Ikebe ; cinematography, Takao Saito and Masaharu Ueda.
  
• Cast:Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu, Shuji Otaki.
  
• System details note:DVD, region 1; stereo.
  
• Audience:MPAA rating: Not rated.
  
• Contents:Disc 1. Kagemusha -- disc 2. Supplements.
  
• Subjects:Samurai--Japan--Drama.
  Daimyo--Japan--Drama.
  Feature films--Japan.
  
• Also listed under:Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998, film director.
  Tanaka, Tomoyuki, 1910-
  Ide, Masato, 1920- 1989.
  Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932-
  Yamazaki, Tsutomu, 1936-
  Hagiwara, Kenʻichi, 1950-
  Nezu, Jinpachi, 1947-
  Otaki, Shuji.
  Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
  Kurosawa Purodakushon.
  Criterion Collection (Firm)