Throne of Blood
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- Runtime
- 108 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Toshirō Mifune
- Isuzu Yamada
- Takashi Shimura
- Akira Kubo
- Hiroshi Tachikawa
- Minoru Chiaki
- Takamaru Sasaki
- Gen Shimizu
- Kokuten Kōdō
- Kichijirō Ueda
- Eiko Miyoshi
- Chieko Naniwa
- Nakajirō Tomita
- Yū Fujiki
- Sachio Sakai
- Shin Ōtomo
- Yoshio Tsuchiya
- Yoshio Inaba
- Takeo Oikawa
- Akira Tani
- Ikio Sawamura
- Yutaka Sada
- Seijirô Onda
- Shinpei Takagi
- Masao Masuda
- Mitsuo Asano
- Shōbun Inoue
- Asao Koike
- Takeshi Katō
- Hitoshi Takagi
- Michiya Higuchi
- Senkichi Ōmura
- Gorô Sakurai
- Shirō Tsuchiya
- Takeo Matsushita
- Jun Ōtomo
- Kamayuki Tsubono
- Fuminori Ōhashi
- Isao Kimura
- Seiji Miyaguchi
- Nobuo Nakamura
Director
- Akira Kurosawa
Producers
- Sōjirō Motoki
- Akira Kurosawa
Screenwriter
- Shinobu Hashimoto
- Hideo Oguni
- Ryūzō Kikushima
- Akira Kurosawa
