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(aka 'Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)" or "Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior" or "Shadow Warrior" "The Double')

Japan 1980

In his late color masterpiece Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior), director Akira Kurosawa returned to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his celebrated career—the play between illusion and reality. Sumptuously reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic that is also a somber meditation on the nature of power.

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Theatrical Release: April 26th, 1980 - Japan

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DVD Review: Criterion (2-disc) - Region 1 - NTSC

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Distribution	Criterion Collection - Spine # 267 - Region 1 - NTSC
Runtime	3:00:23
Video	1.81:1 Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: ?? mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s
Audio	Japanese (Dolby Digital 4.0)
Subtitles	English, None
Features	Release Information: Studio: Criterion / Home Vision Aspect Ratio: Original aspect Ratio 1.81:1 Edition Details: • Audio commentary by Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince (The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa) • A 40-minute documentary on the making of Kagemusha, part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create • Helping a Master: Coppola, Lucas, and Kagemusha, new video interviews with executive producers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas • mage: Kurosawa’s Continuity, a new video piece that reconstructs Kagemusha through Kurosawa’s paintings and sketches • A booklet featuring new essays by scholars Darrell Davis and Peter Grilli and biographical sketches by Japanese film historian Donald Richie DVD Release Date: March 29th, 2005 Keep Case Chapters: 32

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Colors in this Kurosawa film are eye-popping, reminding me of Dreams. The transfer looks to be of Criterion standard - excellent! Tight, marvelous detail, vibrant colors, peeking film grain - everything one expects from the greatest DVD production company in the world. Extras are even more overwhelming with a second disc of supplements in addition to the commentary on the Feature side. Too much!... another award-winning DVD from Criterion. out of

Gary W. Tooze

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Recommended Reading for Kurosawa Fans (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)


The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film by Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp	Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema (Midland Book, Mb 469) by David Desser	Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema by James Goodwin	Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema (Asia-Pacific.) by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto	The Warrior's Camera by Stephen Prince	The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Ritchie	The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune by Stuart Galbraith IV	Something Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa	A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by Donald Richie

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