Kagemusha (blu ray) standard edition

In his late masterpiece KAGEMUSHA (1980), director Akira Kurosawa returns to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his career—the play between illusion and reality.

When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, and then finds himself haunted by the warlord’s spirit as well as his own ambitions. 

Sumptuously reconstructing the splendour of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a historical epic that is also a meditation on the nature of power.