Kagemusha (Special Edition)

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In his latest 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. The Criterion Collection is proud to present Kagemusha for the first time in its full-length version.

2-Disc Set; 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; Image: 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.