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.
Toshirō Mifune
Isuzu Yamada
Takashi Shimura
Akira Kubo
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Minoru Chiaki
Takamaru Sasaki
Gen Shimizu
Kokuten Kōdō
Kichijirō Ueda
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