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.
Length 108 minutes
Toshirō Mifune | Takashi Shimura | Minoru Chiaki | Kichijirô Ueda | Yoshio Tsuchiya | Yoshio Inaba | Seiji Miyaguchi | Isao Kimura | Akira Kubo | Nobuo Nakamura | Isuzu Yamada | Hiroshi Tachikawa | Hitoshi Takagi | Takeshi Katô | Asao Koike | Ikio Sawamura | Eiko Miyoshi | Sachio Sakai | Kokuten Kôdô | Shinpei Takagi | Yutaka Sada | Chieko Naniwa | Yû Fujiki | Akifumi Inoue | Nakajirô Tomita | Senkichi Ômura | Akira Tani | Takeo Oikawa | Fuminori Ôhashi | Shin Ôtomo | Gen Shimizu | Takeo Matsushita | Takamaru Sasaki | Jun Ôtomo | Kamayuki Tsubono | Seijirô Onda | Mitsuo Asano | Gorô Sakurai | Masao Masuda | Michiya Higuchi | Shirô Tsuchiya