Daisan no kagemusha (The Third Shadow Warrior)
Directed by Umetsugo Inoue
Written by Seiji Hoshikawa and Norio Nanjo
1963/Japan
Daiei Kyoto
First viewing/FilmStruck
Nobukado Takeda: The shadow of a man can never stand up and walk on its own. (From Kagemusha (1980) directed by Akira Kurosawa
A bloodier take on the Kagemusha source story also made by Akira Kurosawa in 1980.
A humble farmer longs to be a samurai. A warlord’s retainers promise him a job but it turns out to be to serve as a double and decoy for the warlord. Much bloody fighting and maiming ensues.
This was well-made but too gruesome for my taste.
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