| Title | The Third Shadow Warrior (1963) |
| Runtime | 1 hr. 43 min. |
| Director | Umetsugu Inoue |
| Country | Japan |
| Studio | Criterion Collection |
| Genres | Action and Adventure |
| Description | Despite its setting in 1567 Japan, Umetsugu Inoue's 1963 drama The Third Shadow Warrior (aka The Third Shadow, aka Daisan no Kagemusha) seemed to have a lot to say about twentieth century Japan -- derived from a novel by leftist author Norio Nanjo, its story of a peasant who ascends to the nobility, only to be destroyed in the process, is a harsh criticism of social caste systems and their toll on the people trapped within them |