Japanese war epic films

1970 American-Japanese war film

is a 1980 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class petty thief who is taught to impersonate the dying daimyō Takeda Shingen to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. Kagemusha is the Japanese term for a political decoy, literally meaning "shadow warrior". The film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.

1969 film by Seiji Maruyama

1990 film by Haruki Kadokawa

1980 film by Toshio Masuda

1963 film by Toshirō Mifune

1960 film by Shūe Matsubayashi

1968 film by Seiji Maruyama