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Kagemusha (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray Disc)
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Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Jinpachi Nezu, Hideo Nakata, Daisuke Ryu, Kaori Momoi
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Studio: Criterion Collection
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama / War
Release Date: August 18, 2009
Running Time: 3 hrs. 1 min.
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SPECIAL FEATURES
· Restored high-definition digital transfer with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
· Audio commentary featuring Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince (The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa)
· Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa (19 minutes, 2005), in which 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 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
· Optional English subtitle translation
· PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by scholar Peter Grilli and an interview with Kurosawa by renowned critic Tony Rayns
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.