Throne Of Blood
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Presents the story of Washizu and Miki who are on their way home from battle when they get lost in a labyrinthine forest where they meet a spirit who prophesies Washizu's ascendancy and the succession by Miki's son. Designed to create images of symbolic meaning which give visual expression to the themes and motifs of Shakespeare's Macbeth without retaining any of the original text. , Set in 16th century Japan, Toshiro Mifune as Macbeth plays a simple soldier, full of exuberance and fire. The samurai is goaded by his wife and a spirit to murder his friend and his lord. Kurosawa's film is Note worthy for its eeerie atmospherics and powerful use of elements derived from Noh theatre. (Circulates)
Credits
- Directed by
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written by
- Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Ryūzō Kikushima
- Cast
- Toshirō Mifune, Isao Kimura, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Akira Kubo, Isuzu Yamada, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yū Fujiki, Yoshio Inaba, Asao Koike, Chieko Naniwa, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Kokuten Kōdō, Eiko Miyoshi, Kichijirō Ueda, Shōbun Inoue, Takamaru Sasaki, Takeshi Katō …
- Produced by
- Sōjirō Motoki
- Cinematography
- Asakazu Nakai
- Music
- Masaru Sato
- Edited by
- Akira Kurosawa
Complete catalog record
Presents the story of Washizu and Miki who are on their way home from battle when they get lost in a labyrinthine forest where they meet a spirit who prophesies Washizu's ascendancy and the succession by Miki's son. Designed to create images of symbolic meaning which give visual expression to the themes and motifs of Shakespeare's Macbeth without retaining any of the original text. , Set in 16th century Japan, Toshiro Mifune as Macbeth plays a simple soldier, full of exuberance and fire. The samurai is goaded by his wife and a spirit to murder his friend and his lord. Kurosawa's film is Note worthy for its eeerie atmospherics and powerful use of elements derived from Noh theatre. (Circulates)
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