Un generale temprato dalla guerra, istigato dall'ambiziosa moglie, si impegna a realizzare la profezia di divenire il signore del Castello della Ragnatela.Un generale temprato dalla guerra, istigato dall'ambiziosa moglie, si impegna a realizzare la profezia di divenire il signore del Castello della Ragnatela.Un generale temprato dalla guerra, istigato dall'ambiziosa moglie, si impegna a realizzare la profezia di divenire il signore del Castello della Ragnatela.
- Premi
- 4 vittorie e 1 candidatura
- Kunimaru Tsuzuki
- (as Yôichi Tachikawa)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizOriginally, Akira Kurosawa was planning on building merely a facade castle for the film, but this proved to be an impractical step, prompting the building of full castle sections to use in shooting. These were built with the help of United States Marines who were based in the area.
- BlooperWhen the witch runs in the forest, she briefly can be seen wearing sneakers.
- Citazioni
Old Ghost Woman: [singing] Men are vain and death is long, And pride dies first within the grave, For hair and nails are growing still, When face and fame are gone, Nothing in this world will save, Or measure up man's actions here, Nor in the next - for there is none, This life must end in fear, Only evil may maintain, An afterlife for those who will, Who love this world - who have no son, To whom ambition calls, Even so - this false fame falls, Death will reign - man dies in vain.
- ConnessioniFeatured in A Japanese Film Festival (1957)
The Noh style of acting (like Kabuki, but more refined) seems stilted and exaggerated for the first few minutes; then you realize that is ideally suited to a story like this - more natural acting would seem out of place, as other Macbeth-movies go to prove.
The Japanese title of this film translates as "Cobweb Castle" (or Spider City) and this really should have been the title in English. The film is full of the notion of spiders spinning webs (and plots) in secret. It is worth noting that the witch (or "monster") is first seen with a ghostly spinning-wheel. This symbolizes the thread of fate, but also reflects the cobweb theme.
The story is sometimes slow-moving, but you have to realize that this is a story of insidious slow rot (hence the references to spiders and cobwebs). The decay is punctured by occasional bursts of violent action, as befits the story. The black-and-white picture adds to the creepiness, and the atmosphere is so thick that the movie works more effectively than "Ran" (Kurosawa's more polished Shakespeare-adaptation).
Macbeth is the great-granddaddy of the entire horror genre, and Kurosawa is a worthy descendant.
- Prof_Lostiswitz
- 21 gen 2004
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- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 46.808 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 15.942 USD
- 28 lug 2002
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 59.709 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 50 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1