Takashi Shimura
Kurosawa wrote a part in "Kagemusha" for his longtime regular actor Takashi Shimura, and "Kagemusha" was the last Kurosawa film in which Shimura appeared. However, the scene in which he plays a servant who accompanies a western doctor to a meeting with Shingen was cut from the foreign release of the film. The Criterion Collection DVD release of the film restored this scene as well as approximately another eighteen minutes in the film.