Throne of Blood (1957)
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 & Crew
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
Eiko Miyoshi
Old Woman at castle
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
Shinpei Takagi
Commander
Shōbun Inoue
Servant
Asao Koike
Tsuzuki soldier
Takeshi Katō
Guard killed by Washizu
Hitoshi Takagi
Tsuzuki guard
Senkichi Ōmura
Washizu samurai
Jun Ōtomo
Commander
Fuminori Ōhashi
Samurai
Isao Kimura
Phantom samurai
Seiji Miyaguchi
Phantom samurai
Nobuo Nakamura
Phantom samurai
Sōjirō Motoki, Akira Kurosawa
Producer
Ryūzō Kikushima, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
Akira Kurosawa
Director
