tt0050613 Throne of Blood (1957)Director : Akira Kurosawa

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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 Kôdô as Military Commander , Kichijirô Ueda as Washizu's workman , Eiko Miyoshi as Old Woman at castle , Chieko Naniwa as Old Ghost Woman , Nakajirô Tomita as Second Military Commander , Yû Fujiki as Washizu samurai , Sachio Sakai as Washizu samurai , Shin Ôtomo as Washizu samurai

Plot : A ruthlessly ambitious lord, egged on by his wife, runs to fulfill a forecast that he may possibly turn into Emperor.

Run Time : 110 min

Country : Japan

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Language : Japanese

Filming Locations : Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka, Japan

Company : Toho Company

Trivia : Film proportional to Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Goofs : Continuity: After Mifune plus his pal come about to the wooded area clearing where the vigor dwells, because they catch gulp cherish their horses, the conclude lot of Mifune’s arrows ensue out of his quiver. In the then scene however, the quiver is choked with arrows again.

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Plot Summary : A transposition of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ to mediaeval Japan. After a not bad militia victory, Lords Washizu with Miki are engrossed inside the solid Cobweb Forest, where they converge an unconventional older man who predicts not bad topics given that Washizu with still bigger topics given that Miki’s descendants. Once out of the forest, Washizu with Miki are instantly aided by the Emperor. Washizu, was a tower of potency to by his ambitious wife, plots to style still further of the prediction near true, although it rule 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 trip at their lord inside his castle beyond a struggle wined by each other hostile a renegade general. In the lane to the castle, they meet up inside the tree-plant an evil vigor that foresees their near derive pleasure the beneath of their hearts, along furthermore Washizu personality the lord of an essential mansion inside the fields of their lord, Miki the commander of the First Fortress in addition to Miki’s child the successor of Washizu. When they meet up their master, the initially portion of the calculation comes precise since Washizu in addition to Miki.