Toshiro Mifune
Taketori Washizu
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Throne of Blood ( Japanese: 蜘蛛巣城, Hepburn: Kumonosu-jō, lit. 'The Spider Web Castle') is a 1957 Japanese jidaigeki film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.
Throne of Blood: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo. A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
- (56K)
- Drama
- Akira Kurosawa
- 1961-11-22
Watch the 1957 film by the Japanese master of cinema, based on Shakespeare's tragedy and set in feudal Japan. See Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada as the ruthless warrior and his wife, and enjoy the Noh-inspired style and music.
- 110 min
- 34.6K
- Shadows of the Dark
Although Throne of Blood is set in feudal Japan unlike Macbeth which was set in medieval Scotland, Kurosawa has succesfully transformed Shakespearean literature into a visual extravaganza.
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- Toshiro Mifune
- Akira Kurosawa
- Drama
Summaries. A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle. After securing a major victory on the battlefield, Taketoti Washizu and one of his commanders, Yoshiaki Miki, find themselves lost in the maze-like Spider's Web forest.
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare's definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly,...
- 4 min
- 161.5K
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A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan.
