185. Kumonosu-jō (Throne of Blood) - This Just In/World Tour 2020 (#245)




The 250 show

Summary: Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Chris Lavery, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. This time, Akira Kurosawa's Kumonosu-jō. War rages across feudal Japan. Tsuzuki has finally managed to subdue the latest insurrection against his rule. Journeying through Cobweb Forest, victorious generals Washizu and Miki stumble across a strange woman, who offers a prophecy that augers great and terrible things for the two men. Promised the throne, can Washizu resist the lure and temptation of power? More to the point, what terrible things will he do to procure such power? At time of recording, it was ranked 245th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.