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.
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Toshirō Mifune as Taketori Washizu
Isuzu Yamada as Lady Asaji Washizu
Takashi Shimura as Noriyasu Odagura
Akira Kubo as Yoshiteru Miki
Hiroshi Tachikawa as Kunimaru Tsuzuki
Minoru Chiaki as Yoshiaki Miki
Takamaru Sasaki as Kuniharu Tsuzuki
Gen Shimizu as
Kokuten Kōdō as Military Commander
Kichijirō Ueda as Washizu's workman
Eiko Miyoshi as Old Woman at castle
Chieko Naniwa as Old Ghost Woman
Nakajirō Tomita as Military Commander #2
Yū Fujiki as Washizu samurai
Sachio Sakai as Washizu samurai
Shin Ōtomo as Washizu samurai
Yoshio Tsuchiya as Washizu samurai
Yoshio Inaba as Military Commander #3
Takeo Oikawa as Miki party member
Akira Tani as Washizu soldier
Ikio Sawamura as Washizu soldier
Yutaka Sada as Washizu samurai
Seijirô Onda as Miki party member #2
Shinpei Takagi as Commander
Masao Masuda as Commander
Mitsuo Asano as
Shōbun Inoue as Servant
Asao Koike as
Takeshi Katō as Guard killed by Washizu
Hitoshi Takagi as Tsuzuki guard
Michiya Higuchi as Tsuki guard
Senkichi Ōmura as Washizu samurai
Gorô Sakurai as Servant
Shirō Tsuchiya as Commander
Takeo Matsushita as Commander
Jun Ōtomo as Commander
Kamayuki Tsubono as Servant
Fuminori Ōhashi as Samurai
Isao Kimura as Phantom samurai
Seiji Miyaguchi as Phantom samurai
Nobuo Nakamura as Phantom samurai
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