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Throne of Blood

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Throne of Blood

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Summary

Period drama based on Shakespeare's Macbeth, starring Toshiro Mifune. A warrior meets a mysterious old woman who predicts he will have great power, but only briefly. Driven on by his devious wife, he soon finds that his ambition leads to murder.

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Review

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

David Parkinson

TS Eliot considered this the finest film ever made, although several critics have attacked this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth for the one-dimensionality of the characters. Whatever faults there may be in the dramatic structure, there's no denying the power of the atmosphere director Akira Kurosawa builds up through his majestic use of camera movement, while the eerie sets certainly justified the film's alternative title, Cobweb Castle. At the centre of these Noh tableaux stands Toshiro Mifune, as the villain who's so much at the mercy of fate and the elements, that all you can feel at his death is pity.

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Cast

rolenameTaketoki WashizuToshiro MifuneAsajiIsuzu YamadaNoriyasu OdaguraTakashi ShimuraYoshiaki MikiMinoru ChiakiYoshiteruAkira KuboKuniharu TsuzukiTakamaru SasakiKunimaruYoichi Tachikawa

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rolenameDirectorAkira Kurosawa

Details

Theatrical distributor

BFI

Released on

2002-01-04

Languages

Japanese

Guidance

Contains violence.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Black and white

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