Throne of Blood
One of the most celebrated screen adaptations
of Shakespeare into film, Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood re-imagines 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 classic tale of ambition and duplicity set
against a ghostly landscape of fog and inescapable doom.
-Audio Commentary
-Original Trailer
-English Subtitles
-Two Subtitle Translations
-Essay
(110 Minutes)
