Kagemusha dir: Kurosawa 1980 Italian locandina

Kagemusha (1980) - (dir: Kurosawa) Italian locandina

This is a 13" x 26" Italian locandina poster for the 1980 Akira Kurosawa film Kagemusha AKA The Shadow Warrior written by Masato Ide and Akira Kurosawa and starring Tatsuya Nakadai as the kagemusha. Plot summary: In 16th Century Japan a powerful warlord dies and a poor look-alike thief who had been recruited to impersonate him as a political decoy (a kagemusha) is left to carry on in his place so the death of the warlord will not be known. The thief is not up to the task and clashes with the spirit of the dead warlord.

Cast and crew: Akira Kurosawa, Masato Ide, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomo Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu, Hideji Otaki, Daisuke Ryu, Masayuki Yui, Kaori Momoi, Mitsuko Baisho, Hideo Murota, Takayuki Shiho, Koji Shimizu, Koji Shimizu, Noboru Shimizu, Sen Yamamoto, Shuhei Sugimori

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War in Space (1977) - (Kensaku Morita) Seven Mexican Lobby Cards

War in Space (1977) - (Kensaku Morita) Seven Mexican Lobby Cards

These are seven 16.5" x 21" Mexican paper lobby cards for the 1977 Jun Fukuda film The War in Space (Japanese Wakusei daisenso) based on a story by Hideichi Nagahara and Ryuzo Nakanishi and starring Kensaku Morita as Miyoshi. The principal design element of each card is the huge heavily armed "space battleship" Gohten built by Earth's team of scientists to fight the invaders from Venus. Plot summary: When earth is attacked by an alien spacecraft from Venus, Japanese scientists build the space battleship Gohten to use in trying to save humanity. At first the request to build the battleship is ignored, but when an alien tries to kidnap Professor Mataso Takigawa [Ryo Ikebe] everybody realizes Earth is under attack and efforts are mobilized to build the battleship, which easily destroys the attacking enemy fighters and then moves on to Venus to hit their base of operations.

Cast and crew: Jun Fukuda, Hideichi Nagahara, Ryuzo Nakanishi, Kensaku Morita, Yuko Asano, Ryo Ikebe, Masaya Oki, Hiroshi Miyauchi, Hideji Otaki, Katstoshi Atarashi, Akihiko Hirata, Goro Mitsumi, Isao Hashimoto, Shoji Nakayama, David Perin, William Ross

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The War in Space (1977) - (dir: Jun Fukuda) 7 Mexican Lobby Sheets

The War in Space (1977) - (dir: Jun Fukuda) Seven Mexican lobby sheets

These are seven 16.5" x 21" Mexican paper lobby cards for the 1977 Jun Fukuda film The War in Space (Japanese Wakusei daisenso) based on a story by Hideichi Nagahara and Ryuzo Nakanishi and starring Kensaku Morita as Miyoshi. The principal design element of each card is the huge heavily armed "space battleship" Gohten built by Earth's team of scientists to fight the invaders from Venus. Plot summary: When earth is attacked by an alien spacecraft from Venus, Japanese scientists build the space battleship Gohten to use in trying to save humanity. At first the request to build the battleship is ignored, but when an alien tries to kidnap Professor Mataso Takigawa [Ryo Ikebe] everybody realizes the Earth is under attack and efforts are mobilized to build the battleship, which easily destroys the attacking enemy fighters and then moves on to Venus to hit their base of operations.

Cast and crew: Jun Fukuda, Hideichi Nagahara, Ryuzo Nakanishi, Kensaku Morita, Yuko Asano, Ryo Ikebe, Masaya Oki, Hiroshi Miyauchi, Hideji Otaki, Katstoshi Atarashi, Akihiko Hirata, Goro Mitsumi, Isao Hashimoto, Shoji Nakayama, David Perin, William Ross

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Kagemusha (1980) - (dir: Kurosawa) US style B one-sheet

Kagemusha (1980) - (dir: Akira Kurosawa) US one-sheet poster

This is a US style B one-sheet poster for the 1980 Akira Kurosawa film Kagemusha starring Tatsuya Nakadai based on a story by Masato Ide and Akira Kurosawa. Plot summary: A petty thief is hired to impersonate a warlord, and is then forced to take up arms in his place after he dies.

Cast and crew: Akira Kurosawa, Masato Ide, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Jipanchi Nezu, Hideji Otaki, Daisuke Ryu, Masayuki Yui, Kaori Momoi, Mitsoko Baisho, Hideo Murota, Takayuki Shiho, Koji Shimizu, Noboru Shimizu, Sen Yamamoto, Shuhei Sugimori

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