Throne of Blood (Criterion) (1957)

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category: movies > dvds

director: Akira Kurosawa

studio: Criterion Collection

year: 1957

country: Japan

format: 1:33:1

number of discs: 1

movie length: 109 minutes

region: 1

cast: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki, Akira Kubo, Takamaru Sasaki, Yoichi Tachikawa, Takashi Shimura, Chieko Naniwa

tags: Throne of Blood Criterion

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One of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare into film, Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood reimagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa's longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells of a valiant warrior's savage rise to power and his ignominious fall. With Throne of Blood, Kurosawa fuses one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies with the formal elements of Japanese Noh theater to make a Macbeth that is all his own-a classic tale of ambition and duplicity set against a ghostly landscape of fog and inescapable doom.