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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.
Throne of Blood: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo. A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
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- Drama
- Akira Kurosawa
- 1961-11-22
Jun 19, 2024 · Kurosawa cited American John Ford as his model. He adapted Shakespeare’s works three times, drew literary inspiration from Orthodox Russia by adapting Dostoevsky and Gorky, and created films like the crime drama Stray Dog and the period piece Yojimbo, both heavily influenced by film noir aesthetics.
Throne of Blood is generally regarded as one of Akira Kurosawa's coldest Samurai movies. There is none of the roguish good humour of The Hidden Forest, the elegiac humanism of Seven Samurai,...
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- Toshiro Mifune
- Akira Kurosawa
- Drama
Directed by Akira Kurosawa. 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.
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- Akira Kurosawa
Summaries. A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle. After securing a major victory on the battlefield, Taketoti Washizu and one of his commanders, Yoshiaki Miki, find themselves lost in the maze-like Spider's Web forest.
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One of a number of films that Akira Kurosawa made in the 1950s and which have become classics, Throne of Blood is the director's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan but showing that lust for power is a perennial feature of human society.
