"Kagemusha Criterion Collection Blu Ray" - 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 the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic that is also a somber meditation on the nature of power in "Kagemusha Criterion Collection Blu Ray."
"Kagemusha Criterion Collection Blu Ray" EXTRAS:
Audio Commentary by Kurosawa Scholar Stephen Prince;
Luca, Coppola, and Kurosawa, a 19-minute interview piece in which Directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss Kurosawa and Kagemusha;
A 41-minute Documentary on the making of the film;
Image: Kurosawa's Continuity, a 44-minute video piece reconstructing Kagemusha through Kurosawa's paintings and sketches;
Suntory Whiskey Commercials made on the set of Kagemusha;
Gallery of Storyboards painted by Kurosawa and images of their realization on-screen;
Theatrical Trailers and Teasers;
Plus: A Booklet featuring an essay by Scholar Peter Grilli and an Interview with Kurosawa by renowned critic Tony Rayns
