Throne of Blood (1957)
Throne of Blood (1957)


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Cast & Crew.

Toshirō Mifune
Taketori 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

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

Takeo Oikawa
Miki party member

Akira Tani
Washizu soldier

Ikio Sawamura
Washizu soldier

Yutaka Sada
Washizu samurai

Seijirô Onda
Miki party member #2

Shinpei Takagi
Commander

Masao Masuda
Commander

Shōbun Inoue
Servant

Takeshi Katō
Guard killed by Washizu

Hitoshi Takagi
Tsuzuki guard

Michiya Higuchi
Tsuki guard

Senkichi Ōmura
Washizu samurai

Gorô Sakurai
Servant

Shirō Tsuchiya
Commander

Takeo Matsushita
Commander

Jun Ōtomo
Commander

Kamayuki Tsubono
Servant

Fuminori Ōhashi
Samurai

Isao Kimura
Phantom samurai

Seiji Miyaguchi
Phantom samurai

Nobuo Nakamura
Phantom samurai

Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer

Sōjirō Motoki
Producer

Yoshirō Muraki
Costume Design / Production Design

Ryūzō Kikushima
Screenplay

Akira Kurosawa
Producer / Editor / Director / Screenplay

Asakazu Nakai
Director of Photography

Shinobu Hashimoto
Screenplay

Hideo Oguni
Screenplay

William Shakespeare
Theatre Play

Ichirô Minawa
Sound Designer

Junjirō Yamada
Hairstylist

Masanori Kobayashi
Makeup Artist

Yoshiko Matsumoto
Hairstylist

Fumio Yanoguchi
Sound Recordist

Masanao Uehara
Assistant Sound Editor

Eiji Tsuburaya
Visual Effects

Yoshimitsu Banno
Assistant Director
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Details.
Release DateJanuary 15, 1957
Original Name蜘蛛巣城
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 48m
Box Office$13,422
Filming LocationsJapan
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Throne of Blood (Japanese: 蜘蛛巣城, Hepburn: Kumonosu-jō, lit. 'The Spider Web Castle') is a 1957 Japanese jidaigeki film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot of English dramatist William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (1606) from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama. The film stars Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada in the lead roles, modelled on the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
As with the play, the film tells the story of a warrior who assassinates his sovereign at the urging of his ambitious wife. Kurosawa was a fan of the play and intended to make his own adaptation for several years, delaying it after learning of Orson Welles' Macbeth (1948). Among his changes was the ending, which required archers to shoot arrows around Mifune. The film was shot around Mount Fuji and Izu Peninsula. With a budget of US$350,000 (equivalent to $3,918,000 in 2024), the film was one of the most expensive films ever made in Japan at the time of its release.
Despite the change in setting and language and numerous creative liberties, Throne of Blood is often considered one of the best film adaptations of the classic play, and has received much critical praise. The film won two Mainichi Film Awards, including Best Actor for Toshiro Mifune.
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