Akira Kurosawa transposes the plot of Shakespeare's Macbeth from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan. Stars Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada...
Akira Kurosawa transposes the plot of Shakespeare's Macbeth from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan. Stars Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada and was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 1957 Venice Film Festival.
Miki (Kubo) and Washizu (Mifune) are the commanders of the 1st and 2nd Fortress under a local lord, who reigns in the Spiders' Web Castle. After defeating the lord's enemies in battle, they visit the fortress. But when Washizu, driven by his wife (Yamada), conspires and murders the lord to rule the castle, his evil deeds come back to haunt him.
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- Runtime
- 110
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Japan