Kagemusha : the shadow warrior
(DVD)

Special features: new, restored high-definition digital transfer enhanced for widescreen televisions; audio commentary by Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince (The Warrior's Camera: the Cinema of Akira Kurosawa); a 40-minute documentary on the making of Kagemusha, part of the 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.

Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki.

Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry or war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic. Kagemusha is presented in its original uncut version and features many special bonus features.

DVD format, region 1, widescreen presentation; stereo.

Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.