Project Author: Hakura
June 23, 2025
PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
TOHO
Throne of Blood
Genre:
Drama, History
Runtime:
108
Released:
1957
Rating:
7.9
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryūzō Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, William Shakespeare
FILM OVERVIEW
Throne of Blood
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.
DIRECTOR
Akira Kurosawa
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
Akira Kurosawa (Director)
Shinobu Hashimoto (Screenplay)
Ryūzō Kikushima (Screenplay)
Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay)
Hideo Oguni (Screenplay)
Akira Kurosawa (Producer)
Sōjirō Motoki (Producer)
Masaru Satō (Original Music Composer)
Asakazu Nakai (Director of Photography)
Akira Kurosawa (Editor)
CAST MEMBERS
Toshirō Mifune
Isuzu Yamada
Takashi Shimura
Akira Kubo
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Minoru Chiaki
Takamaru Sasaki
Gen Shimizu
Kokuten Kōdō
Kichijirō Ueda
MORE PRODUCTION
Yoshirō Muraki (Costume Design), William Shakespeare (Theatre Play), Ichirô Minawa (Sound Designer), Yoshirō Muraki (Production Design), Masanori Kobayashi (Makeup Artist), Yoshiko Matsumoto (Hairstylist), Junjirō Yamada (Hairstylist), Fumio Yanoguchi (Sound Recordist), Masanao Uehara (Assistant Sound Editor), Eiji Tsuburaya (Visual Effects), Yoshimitsu Banno (Assistant Director)
MORE CAST
Eiko Miyoshi, Chieko Naniwa, Nakajirō Tomita, Yū Fujiki, Sachio Sakai, Shin Ōtomo, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yoshio Inaba, Takeo Oikawa, Akira Tani, Ikio Sawamura, Yutaka Sada, Seijirô Onda, Shinpei Takagi, Masao Masuda, Mitsuo Asano, Shōbun Inoue, Asao Koike, Takeshi Katō, Hitoshi Takagi, Michiya Higuchi, Senkichi Ōmura, Gorô Sakurai, Shirō Tsuchiya, Takeo Matsushita, Jun Ōtomo, Kamayuki Tsubono, Fuminori Ōhashi, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura
