Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.

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Film Cast:

  • Shingen Takeda / Kagemusha: Tatsuya Nakadai
  • Nobukado Takeda: Tsutomu Yamazaki
  • Katsuyori Takeda: Kenichi Hagiwara
  • Sohachiro Tsuchiya: Jinpachi Nezu
  • Masakage Yamagata: Hideji Ôtaki
  • Nobunaga Oda: Daisuke Ryû
  • Ieyasu Tokugawa: Masayuki Yui
  • Otsuyanokata: Kaori Momoi
  • Oyunokata: Mitsuko Baisho
  • Nobufusa Baba: Hideo Murota
  • Masatoyo Naito: Takayuki Shiho
  • Katsusuke Atobe: Kôji Shimizu
  • Masatane Hara: Noboru Shimizu
  • Nobushige Oyamada: Sen Yamamoto
  • Masanobu Kosaka: Shuhei Sugimori
  • Takemaru: Kota Yui
  • Ranmaru Mori: Yasuhito Yamanaka
  • Takemaru's Nurse: Kumeko Otowa
  • Nagahide Niwa: Tetsuo Yamashita
  • Zenjiro Amemiya: Kai Atō
  • Monk: Takashi Ebata
  • Jingoro Hara: Yu Shimaka
  • Kugutsushi: Toshiaki Tanabe
  • ...: Naruhito Iguchi
  • Salt Vendor: Yoshimitsu Yamaguchi
  • Kenshin Uesugi: Eiichi Kanakubo
  • Noda Castle Soldier: Akihiko Sugizaki
  • ...: Yugo Miyazaki
  • ...: Masatsugu Kuriyama
  • Tadatsugu Sakai: Norio Matsui
  • ...: Jirô Chiba
  • Kazumasa Ishikawa: Yasushi Doshida
  • ...: Takashi Watanabe
  • Heihachiro Honda: Toku Sone
  • ...: Toshiya Ito
  • Priest: Francis Selleck
  • ...: Morihiro Yanase
  • ...: Alexander Kairis
  • ...: Toshimitsu Kato
  • ...: Paul Okawa
  • ...: Toshihiko Shimizu
  • ...: Senkichi Ômura
  • Taguchi Gyobu: Takashi Shimura
  • Doctor: Kamatari Fujiwara

Film Crew:

  • Executive Producer: George Lucas
  • Executive Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
  • Executive Producer: Akira Kurosawa
  • Executive Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
  • Art Direction: Yoshirô Muraki
  • Screenplay: Masato Ide
  • Director of Photography: Takao Saitō
  • Director of Photography: Shôji Ueda
  • Original Music Composer: Shinichirô Ikebe
  • Sound Recordist: Fumio Yanoguchi
  • Lighting Technician: Takeji Sano
  • Costume Design: Seiichiro Hagakusawa
  • Sound Effects Editor: Ichirô Minami
  • Production Manager: Toshiaki Hashimoto
  • Assistant Art Director: Aki Saburagi

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