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The 'Imperial Palace' of the emperor Meiji in 'Tokyo' is the 400yearold ChionIn Temple, in Kyoto, where you can see the imposing flight of steps Much of the filming was in New Zealand, on the hillsides of the Uruti Valley, northern Taranaki, on the west of the North Island around 100 miles south of Auckland The Japanese village was constructed here, with Mount Taranaki standingKagemusha (1980) by Akira Kurosawa () marked the dramatic return of a worldclass director who had suffered a decadelong string of defeats that had threatened both his career and health Ironically, the idea for the film that would return him to international prominence was hatched around the same time that he was about to enter a bleak stretch of his life marred by the A new epic film by Kurosawa is an international event, especially when it's the only film he has made in Japan in ten years, after he had just about given up hope of ever working there again On top of that, many people consider t