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Throne of Blood (aka Macbeth, Spider Web Castle)

Kumonosu jô

1957

715515112413

8.0

60,006

action | drama | foreign | thriller | war

Japan | Japanese | Black & White | 01:45

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Mikio and Washizu are the commanders of the 1st and 2nd Fortress under a local lord, who reigns in the Spiders' Web Castle. After defeating the lord's enemies in battle, they visit the fortress. Washizu, driven by his wife, conspires and murders the lord, becoming lord of the castle. But his evil deeds come back to haunt him.

Cast View all

	Toshirô 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 Kodo	Military Commander
	Kichijiro Ueda	Washizu's workman
	Eiko Miyoshi	Old Woman at castle
	Chieko Naniwa	Old Ghost Woman
	Nakajiro Tomita	Second Military Commander
	Yu Fujiki	Washizu samurai
	Sachio Sakai	Washizu samurai
	Shin Otomo	Washizu samurai
	Yoshio Tsuchiya	Washizu samurai
	Yoshio Inaba	Third Military Commander
	Takeo Oikawa	Miki party member
	Akira Tani	Washizu soldier
	Ikio Sawamura	Washizu soldier
	Yutaka Sada	Washizu samurai
	Seijiro Onda	Second Miki party member
	Shinpei Takagi	Commander
	Masao Masuda	Commander

Crew View all

Director	Akira Kurosawa
Writer	Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa
Producer	Akira Kurosawa, Sojiro Motoki
Musician	Masaru Satô
Photography	Asakazu Nakai

Trailer

Edition details

Edition	Criterion Dual Format Edition
Packaging	Keep Case
Nr Discs	2
Audio Tracks	PCM [Japanese]
Subtitles	English
Layers	Single side, Single layer
Edition Release Date	May 27, 2003
Regions	Region A