Kumonosu-jô

Released Year: 1957

Certificate: Not Rated

Runtime: 110 minutes

Genre: Drama, History

IMDB Rating:

Meta Score: 0

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura

No of Votes: 46678

Gross: N/A

Overview: A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

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