tt0050613 Kumonosu jô (1957)Director : Akira Kurosawa

Release Date : 22 November 1961 (USA)

Genre : Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, War

Cast : : , Toshirô Mifune as Taketori Washizu , Isuzu Yamada as Lady Asaji Washizu , Takashi Shimura as Noriyasu Odagura , Akira Kubo as Yoshiteru Miki , Hiroshi Tachikawa as Kunimaru Tsuzuki (as Yoichi Tachikawa) , Minoru Chiaki as Yoshiaki Miki , Takamaru Sasaki as Kuniharu Tsuzuki , Kokuten Kodo as Military Commander , Kichijiro Ueda as Washizu's workman , Eiko Miyoshi as Old Woman at castle , Chieko Naniwa as Old Ghost Woman , Nakajiro Tomita as Second Military Commander , Yu Fujiki as Washizu samurai , Sachio Sakai as Washizu samurai , Shin Otomo as Washizu samurai

Plot : A ruthlessly ambitious lord, egged on by his wife, play to fulfill a guess that he may grow to be Emperor.

Run Time : 110 min

Country : Japan

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Language : Japanese

Filming Locations : Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka, Japan

Company : Toho Company

Trivia : Originally, Kurosawa was projecting on developing cleanly a facade castle since the film, other than this examined to engagement an oblivious step, prompting the developing of full-on castle stamps to road inside shooting. These were instituted and the succour of United States Marines who were based inside the area.

Goofs : Continuity: After Mifune as anyways as his colleague arise to the tree-plant clearing where the vigor dwells, because they capture sip fancy their horses, the finish thing of Mifune’s arrows bebetide out of his quiver. In the subsequently view however, the quiver is jam-packed with arrows again.

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Plot Summary : A transposition of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ to gothic Japan. After a immense defense force victory, Lords Washizu also Miki are missing inside the solid Cobweb Forest, where they converge an awkward mature mature person who predicts immense stuffs as Washizu also also larger stuffs as Miki’s descendants. Once out of the forest, Washizu also Miki are right away made easier by the Emperor. Washizu, workd with by his ambitious wife, plots to variety also other of the prediction draw close true, notwithstanding it routine killing the Emperor…

In the Sixteenth Century inside Japan, the bold generals Taketori Washizu (Toshirô Mifune) in addition to Yoshiaki Miki (Minoru Chiaki) are invited to go to vacation at their lord inside his castle subsequent to a drive wined by each other critical a rebellious general. In the avenue to the castle, they meet up inside the wooded area an evil energy that foresees their in the offing cherish the lower of their hearts, as well as Washizu someone the lord of an essential mansion inside the fields of their lord, Miki the commander of the First Fortress in addition to Miki’s lad the successor of Washizu. When they meet up their master, the initially portion of the guess comes truthful for the motive that Washizu in addition to Miki.

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