Synopsis
Kagemusha Japanese for double or shadow. That is why its title is " shadow warrior." The story begins with the great leader of the Takeda clan, Shingen, I submitted to a thief who had been sentenced to crucifixion. Shingen's brother, Nobuko, is who notes that the thief has an uncanny resemblance to Shingen and believes this could be useful in future.
Shingen is fatally wounded while his army is besieging the Castle one of the chief rivals, Tokugawa Ieyasu. Shingen believe that soon succumb to his wounds and die. Therefore fear that their enemies can become more daring with the news of his death and to destroy his clan. Therefore instructed his most loyal generals to keep his death secret for at least three more years, both his enemies and their subjects.
After Shingen's death, Nobukado presents to the other generals to the thief and proposes the idea of \u200b\u200bmaking the thief the Kagemusha (double) Shingen. The fact that Shingen is dead is hidden until the same Kagemusha. The Kagemusha is very difficult to suppress their own personality and be someone else all the time. Their problems are compounded when she discovers the corpse of Shingen. Is overwhelmed with the thought of being double for three years.
Meanwhile rival spies discover Shingen almost dead. However, his conversation is heard by the robber and he realizes the consequences of their actions. To deceive the spies and to maintain the welfare of the clan, the thief agrees to be the Kagemusha. From the moment he can assume the role sincerely and start trying to fool the enemies of Shingen, members of his family and even his concubines. The only person who notices the change is his grandson who begins to feel affection for the former. Kagemusha How does represent his role for three years and the subsequent fate of the clan are part of the rest of the film.
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Original Title: Kagemusha
Country: Japan
Year: 1980
Gender: Drama, History, War
Writer: Masato Ide, Akira Kurosawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Photo: Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda
Music: Shinichirô Ikebe
Production: Akira Kurosawa
Duration: 179 minutes
The director (Akira Kurosawa)
Born in Tokyo in 1910, the youngest of seven children of a descendant of samurai officer and a woman belonging to a merchant family Omori. He was 17 when he enrolled in a painting academy and shortly after became interested in literature, in which he professed great admiration for the Russian school, especially Dostoyevsky and Gorky. In 1936 he entered the film world, where he studied prodigy, began working with Kajiro Yamamoto and then as a screenwriter for various makers.
As he began his film career, Japan entered the war (1941-1945), but also was abundant in films.
His directorial debut was with "great judo legend" (1943) and "The new legend of the great judo" (1945), stories full of nationalistic spirit. In the second half of the forties made seven films, including these highlights: "Do not miss my youth" (or kuinashi seishum Waga, 1946) and "A wonderful Sunday (Subarashiki nichiyobi, 1947), solid dramas, but excels "The Drunken Angel" (Yoidore Tenshi, 1948), the plot faces an alcoholic doctor and a gangster tuberculosis and was the first of his long series of collaborations with the famous actor Toshiro Mifune, and also filmed "Stray Dog (Nora inu, 1949), a police thriller which provided a neorealist vision of postwar Tokyo.
He became known internationally with "Rashomon" (1950), a film which addresses a violation occurring in the eleventh century, and which was won the Golden Lion at the Venice and the Oscar for best foreign production in 1951 . The success of Rashomon, let him roll with total freedom: "The Idiot" (Hakuchi, 1951), adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic, "Living (Ikiru, 1952) about the life of a staff member with cancer," Seven samurai (Shishinin not Samura, 1954), history of time again which won the Golden Lion of the Venice, "The Lower Depths" (Donzoko, 1954) version of the novel by Maxim Gorky, "The Throne of Blood" (Kumonosu-jo, 1957), adaptation Macbeth by William Shakespeare, "The Hidden Fortress" (Kakushi Toride no San Akunin, 1958) history of time, "The Mercenary" (Yojimbo, 1961), story of samurai, and "the hell of hatred" (Tengoku to jigoku , 1963), adapted from a detective novel American specialist Ed McBain.
After the commercial failure of "Barba Roja" (Aka Hige, 1965), historical production about the life of a doctor, took five years to film "The way of life "(Dodes ka-den, 1970), his first in color, a film about another facet of economic development. Although it was a great movie, the commercial failure led to the famous filmmaker not find producers for his next project, an issue that plunged him into deep depression and took him to a suicide attempt. Five years later thanks to the support of the Soviet Union got the financing to film "Dersu Uzala", and thereby to the screen the memoirs of Vladimir Arseniev browser.
Dersu Uzala, was an unexpected success, a film known among his best work and which won the Grand Prix Festival Moscow and the Oscar for best foreign film in 1975.
In 1980 he received the Oscar for his career and shot, "Kagemusha" with the help of George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, this film received the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Ran filmed in 1984, again an adaptation of Shakespeare, in making the film version of "King Lear." In 1990 he started filming "Akira Kurosawa's Dreams", with production of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
His last two works are "Rhapsody in August" (1991) and "Madayayo" (1993).
The "emperor of cinema", as it is known, died on September 6, 1998, while he slept.
1944 - Ichiban utsukushiku ( The most beautiful)
1945 - Zocu Sugata Sanshiro (Judo Legend II)
1946 - Asu or tsuru hitobito (Those who do tomorrow)
1947 - Subarashiki nichiyobi (A wonderful Sunday)
1948 - Yoidore Tenshi (Angel drunk)
1949 - Shizikanaru Ketto (A silent duel)
1949 - Nora inu (Dog lost)
1950 - Shunbun (Scandal)
1950 -
Rashomon 1951 - Hacuchi (The Idiot)
1952 - Ikiru (Living)
1954 - Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai)
1955 - Ikimono no kiroku (Memoirs of a living)
1957 - Komonosu-jo ( Throne of Blood)
1958 - Kakushi Toride no San-Akunin (The Hidden Fortress)
1960 - Warui Yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The bad sleep well)
1961 - Yoyimbo (The Bodyguard)
1962 - Tsubaki sanguro (Sanjuro)
1963 - Tengoku to Jigoku (Hell of hatred)
1965 - Akahige (Barbarossa)
1970 - Dodes'ka-den
1975 - Dersu Uzala (The Hunter)
1980 - Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
1985 - 1990 Ran
- Yume (Akira's Dreams Kurosawa)
1991 - Hachigatsu not kyoshikyoku (Rhapsody in August)
1993 - Madadayo
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