Throne of Blood (1957)

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Original Title: 蜘蛛巣城

Release Date: January 15, 1957

Runtime: 108 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $13,422.0

Overview

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

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TMDB Popularity: 5.11

Cast

Toshirō Mifune

Taketoki Washizu

Isuzu Yamada

Lady Asaji Washizu

Takashi Shimura

Noriyasu Odagura

Akira Kubo

Yoshiteru Miki

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Kunimaru Tsuzuki

Minoru Chiaki

Yoshiaki Miki

Takamaru Sasaki

Kuniharu Tsuzuki

Gen Shimizu

Washizu samurai

Kokuten Kōdō

Military Commander

Kichijirō Ueda

Washizu's workman

Chieko Naniwa

Old Ghost Woman

Nakajirō Tomita

Military Commander #2

Yū Fujiki

Washizu samurai

Sachio Sakai

Washizu samurai

Shin Ōtomo

Washizu samurai

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Washizu samurai

Yoshio Inaba

Military Commander #3

Ikio Sawamura

Washizu soldier

Yutaka Sada

Washizu samurai

Seijirô Onda

Miki party member #2

Asao Koike

Tsuzuki soldier

Takeshi Katō

Guard killed by Washizu

Hitoshi Takagi

Tsuzuki guard

Senkichi Ōmura

Washizu samurai

Jun Ōtomo

Commander

Isao Kimura

Phantom samurai

Seiji Miyaguchi

Phantom samurai

Nobuo Nakamura

Phantom samurai

Crew

Masaru Satō

Original Music Composer

Eiji Tsuburaya

Visual Effects

Yoshirō Muraki

Costume Design

Yoshirō Muraki

Production Design

Yoshimitsu Banno

Assistant Director

Asakazu Nakai

Director of Photography

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