1. Kagushima? War movie where the soldiers had flags on their backs and they picked some twin commoner to stand in for general.
Almost....Kagemusha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagemusha
Missed your reply before I asked again-Thanks!
“Goodbye Lenin” 2003 Germany
Kagemusha, the Shadow Warior.
Better, I think, than Ran.
There was a Jap. film about the Ronin, in several parts, the name of which I can’t recall.
Others:
Babbette’s Feast
La Belle et La Bette (Cocteau)
&
Umrao Jaan (actress Rekha, dir, Muzaffar Ali, 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=265MmBcFPQM&feature=related