When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom.... (Full plot summary below)
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When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom.
Leave your thoughts about Kagemusha.
| San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonAn often breathtaking but slightly bloodless samurai epic. |
| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThough the story's Shakespearean underpinnings give Kagemusha the weight of classic tragedy–in this case, the tragedy of a man rendered helpless by larger historical forces–the film astonishes mostly as pure spectacle. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSimple, bold, and colorful on the surface, but very thoughtful. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseA fine example of the Kurosawa style...precision of narrative in both scripting and imagistic storytelling... [Blu-ray] |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThough not as overall impressive as his next picture Ran, Kagemusha, Akira Kurosawa's return to the epic Samurai film deservedly received Oscar nominations for its great pictorial beauty and other production values. |
| Slant MagazineEric HendersonKagemusha, much like the similarly overblown but handsomely mounted Lawrence of Arabia, is an epic with a cipher in its point position. |
| EmpireIan NathanAn often overlooked fine entry in the Kurasawa canon, this shows a good many western 'epics' how it's done. |
| eFilmCritic.comBrian MckayDull and plodding presentation of an interesting period of Japanese history. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrSomething large and abstract is stirring here, though the film's ultimate implications are chilling |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouLeo GoldsmithHere, as in all of Kurosawa's late films, this sense of hopeless fixity renders unconvincing any hope for human agency. |
