Top billed cast

1. 

   Toshirō Mifune

   Taketoki Washizu

2. 

   Isuzu Yamada

   Lady Asaji Washizu

3. 

   Takashi Shimura

   Noriyasu Odagura

4. 

   Akira Kubo

   Yoshiteru Miki

5. 

   Hiroshi Tachikawa

   Kunimaru Tsuzuki

6. 

   Minoru Chiaki

   Yoshiaki Miki

7. 

   Takamaru Sasaki

   Kuniharu Tsuzuki

8. 

   Gen Shimizu

   Washizu samurai

9. 

   Kokuten Kōdō

   Military Commander

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-04-20

I think that this is a superb tragi-adventure story that stands out well amongst the numerous loose adaptations of Shakespeare that have been made over the years. Kurosawa takes the Scottish play and gives it the "Noh" treatment that delivers an enigmatic and tautly directed rendition of a story of betrayal, power and insanity. Toshirô Mifune is magnificent as "Washizu" who after getting lost with his colleague (Minoru Chiaki) in the doleful "Spider's Web" forest is given a cryptic prophecy that one day he too is destined to rule the great "Spider's Web castle"... Initially reluctant to embar...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
Japanese

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$13,422.00

Keywords

• japan
• samurai
• based on novel or book
• prophecy
• castle
• siege
• ambition
• betrayal
• black and white
• ghost
• jidaigeki
• sengoku period
• feudal lord
• feudal japan