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Awards

Academy Awards 1981 - Nominated - Best Art Direction

Academy Awards 1981 - Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film

BAFTA Awards 1981 - Nominated - Best Cinematography

BAFTA Awards 1981 - Nominated - Best Film

Academy Awards 1981 - Nominated - Best Art Direction

Academy Awards 1981 - Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film

BAFTA Awards 1981 - Nominated - Best Cinematography

BAFTA Awards 1981 - Nominated - Best Film

BAFTA Awards 1981 - Won - Best Costume Design

BAFTA Awards 1981 - Won - Best Direction

Blue Ribbon Awards 1981 - Won - Best Actor

Blue Ribbon Awards 1981 - Won - Best Film

Blue Ribbon Awards 1981 - Won - Best New Actor

Cannes Film Festival 1980 - Won - Palme d'Or

Cesar Awards 1981 - Won - Best Foreign Film

David di Donatello Awards 1981 - Won - Best Foreign Film Director

David di Donatello Awards 1981 - Won - Best Foreign Film Producer

Golden Globe Awards 1981 - Nominated - Best Foreign Film

Hochi Film Awards 1980 - Won - Best Film

Hochi Film Awards 1980 - Won - Best Supporting Actor

Kinema Junpo Awards 1981 - Won - Best Supporting Actor

Mainichi Film Concours 1981 - Won - Best Actor

Mainichi Film Concours 1981 - Won - Best Art Direction

Mainichi Film Concours 1981 - Won - Best Direction

Mainichi Film Concours 1981 - Won - Best Film

Mainichi Film Concours 1981 - Won - Best Film Score

Mainichi Film Concours 1981 - Won - Reader's Choice Award

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Kagemusha

Director:
Akira Kurosawa
180 Minutes
 

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Film 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.

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Runtime:
180 min.

Country:
JAPAN

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

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SPECIAL FEATURES: 

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer enhanced for widescreen televisions
  • Audio commentary by Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince (The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa)
  • 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 Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
  • Image: Kurosawa's Continuity, a new video piece that reconstructs Kagemusha through Kurosawa's paintings and sketches
  • 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
  • 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
  • Theatrical trailers and teasers
  • New and improved English subtitle translation

 

 

 

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