Actors/Artists:  Daisuke Ryu, Hideji Otaki, Jinpachi Nezu, Kenichi Hagiwara, Masayuki Yui, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki

Director:  Akira Kurosawa

Features:

• New, restored high-definition digital tansfer, enhanced for widescreen televisions
• Audio commentary by Kurosawa sholar Stephen Prince (The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa)
• A 40-minute documentary on the making of Kagemusha, part of 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

Aspect Ratio:

Widescreen (Anamorphic)

Audio:

Japanese: Stereo

Subtitles:   English

DC-DVD Price: £26.75

In his late 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 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-lenghth version.