DISC ONE Audio commentary by Stephen Prince, author of The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa Theatrical Trailers and teasers DISC TWO Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa (19 minutes, 2005), directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss Kurosawa and their roles as executive producers of Kagemusha A 41-minute documentary on the making of Kagemusha, part of the Toto Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create Image: Kurosawa's Continuity, a 43-minute video piece reconstructing Kagemusha through Kurosawa's paintings and sketches A series of Suntory Whiskey commercials made on the set of Kagemusha A gallery of storyboards painted by Kurosawa and images of their realization on-screen. PLUS: a 48 page booklet featuring a new essay by scholar Peter Grilli, a reprinted 1981 interview with Kurosawa by renowned critic Tony Rayns, and biographical sketches by Japanese film historian Donald Richie.
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Audio: Japanese: Pro-Logic Surround
Subtitles: English | Rating:  Running Time: Approx. 162 minutes Genre(s): Drama, Foreign, Japanese Cinema, History, Special Editions, Action, Art House, Asian, Classics, Criterion Collection, Foreign, Japanese
Release Date: March 29th, 2005. Studio: Criterion/Voyager
Date Added: November 15th, 2004.
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