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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. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
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- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written by
- Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima, Shinobu Hashimoto
- Produced by
- Akira Kurosawa, Sōjirō Motoki
- Composer
- Masaru Satō
- Cinematographer
- Asakazu Nakai
- Editor
- Akira Kurosawa
- Sound Designer
- Ichirô Minawa
- Studio
- TOHO
- Origin country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Language
- ja
- TMDB
- 7.9/10 (974 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 96% Fresh
- IMDb
- 8.0/10 (59,315 votes)
Cast
Toshirō Mifune
Taketoki 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
Washizu samurai
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
