"Kagemusha" and other Kurosawa film stills

[gurdymonkey]

http://www.kurosawamovies.com/gallery/main.php
Pardon me while I squee quietly.....

Kagemusha and Ran have the most full-color costume eye-candy.....

http://www.kurosawamovies.com/gallery/v/kagemusha/kagemusha28.jpg.html
http://www.kurosawamovies.com/gallery/v/kagemusha/kagemusha35.jpg.html

http://www.kurosawamovies.com/gallery/v/kagemusha/kagemusha57.jpg.html The pattern on the garment of the man with his back to us matches a green and gold kariginu in one of my textile books.

http://www.kurosawamovies.com/gallery/v/kagemusha/kagemusha08.jpg.html Check out Nobunaga's patchwork sleeve, a direct lift from this 16th century eye-bleeder which belonged to Uesugi Kenshin, http://www.wodefordhall.com/uesugikenshin.jpg

Nobunaga gets all the COOL clothes again: http://www.kurosawamovies.com/gallery/v/kagemusha/kagemusha20.jpg.html has him wearing this: http://202.223.183.4/eng/syuzou/meihin/senshoku/item02b.html

Oda Nobunaga's "Life is but a dream" dance:
http://www.kurosawamovies.com/gallery/v/kagemusha/kagemusha66.jpg.html

Comments

[takadai-no-tora.livejournal.com]

and there are the Big Hats in kagemusha gallery #36. I think I need to do the research so maybe I can bring one of them back from Japan when I go in fall. I hope some of the guys look at these; they really give a good idea of the range for late period men's clothes.