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By Peter Grilli Essays — I n the late 1970s, during the long years of waiting for international and domestic funding to come together to produce Kagemusha, Akira Kurosawa returned to the pastime of his youth—he painted Working fast and furiously, each day turning out scores of sketches and paintings, Kurosawa accumulated a unique body of work thatKagemusha was Akira Kurosawa's return to action and samurai films after spending 15 years in other genres And it is glorious Kurosawa's return to samurai epics is bigger than ever, and it feels even larger than his much beloved followup RanIn fact Kagemusha feels very much like a practice run for Ran, emulating the style and politicking of that film, as well as the– Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa, a 19minute interview piece in which directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss Kurosawa and Kagemusha – A 41minute documentary on the making of the film – Image Kurosawa's Continuity, a 44minute video piece reconstructing Kagem