Throne Of Blood

Synopsis: Kurosawa's masterful retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth.  A ruthlessly ambitious lord, egged on by his wife, works to fulfill a prophesy that he would become Emperor.

Cast:  
Toshirô Mifune .... Taketori Washizu 
Isuzu Yamada .... Asaji 
Minoru Chiaki .... Yoshiaki Miki 
Takashi Shimura .... Noriyasu Odagura 
Akira Kubo .... Yoshiteru 
Hiroshi Tachikawa .... Kuniharu's Son 
Chieko Naniwa .... Witch 
Takamaru Sasaki .... Kuniharu Tsuzuki 

Director:  Akira Kurosawa 

Writer:  Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto 

Released:  1957 (theater)

Rating:  NR

Country:  Japan

Language:  Japanese

AKA: 
Castle of the Spider's Web, The (1957)
Cobweb Castle (1957)
Kumonosu jo (1957)
Macbeth (1961) (USA)
Spider Web Castle (1957)
Throne of Blood (1957)