Kagemusha - Criterion Collection (Blu-Ray) Second World War Segment of a 1967 episode

Segment of a 1967 episode of the French television series Cinéma

16-page booklet featuring a substantial essay by author and film programmer Peter Hames

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0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray

Kagemusha - Criterion Collection (Blu-Ray) Second World War Segment of a 1967 episodeWhen a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, and then finds himself haunted by the warlords spirit as well as his own ambitions. In his late color masterpiece Kagemusha, Akira Kurosawa returns to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his careerthe 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