Great movie and especially cinematography

Some of the best shots I've seen, but... I was a little bit disappointed, it felt like not much was happening and I wasn't engaged with the story. I really wanted to love it like I did with the other Kurosawa movies, but I didn't. Still great though.

Kurosawa's lavish Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) presents us with a man who plays double to a powerful warlord, appearances he must keep up for an inordinate amount of time when the warlord unseasonably dies lest the whole kingdom fall into chaos. Not easy for a fidgety scoundrel to play the role of the "immovable mountain", and there's a play between what we project and what we become as a result. Tatsuya Nakadai brings a lot of pathos to his double performance (I almost said triple as Tsutomu Yamazaki, playing his brother, looks almost exactly the same). This is a very windy movie, and I have no doubt it's on purpose - the winds of change trying to shift the now precarious mountain - and though a tragic one as well, it's not without its moments of humor. As well as what is probably the most harrowing post-battle scene ever recorded. I mean, it's Kurosawa, what more incentive do cinephiles need?