Throne of Blood (1957)
蜘蛛巣城
Critics Score
🎬 96%
(RT: 96%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Isuzu Yamada as Lady Asaji Washizu
Akira Kubo as Yoshiteru Miki
Hiroshi Tachikawa as Kunimaru Tsuzuki
Takamaru Sasaki as Kuniharu Tsuzuki
Gen Shimizu as Washizu samurai
Is Throne of Blood good?
Yes. 89% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 96%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
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