Kagemusha ★★★½ The Shadow Warrior; The Double 1980 (PG) A thief is rescued from the gallows because of his striking resemblance to a warlord in 16th Century Japan. When the ambitious warlord is fatally wounded, the thief is required to pose as the warlord. In Japanese with English subtitles. 160m/C VHS, Wide. JP Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Hideji Otaki;
Director:
Akira Kurosawa;
Writer:
Akira Kurosawa, Masato Ide;
Writer:
Kazuo Miyagawa, Masaharu Ueda;
Cameo:
Shinichiro Ikebe. British Acad. '80: Director (Kurosawa); Cannes '80: Film; Cesar '81: Foreign Film.
