Title: Kumonosu-jô
Country: Japan
Year: 1957
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada
Duration: 110 min.
Language: Japanese
Plot: A ruthlessly ambitious lord, egged on by his wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become Emperor. A transposition of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ to medieval Japan.