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Kinema Junpo Awards 1958 - Won - Best Actress
Mainichi Film Concours 1958 - Won - Best Actor
Mainichi Film Concours 1958 - Won - Best Art Direction
Venice Film Festival 1957 - Nominated - Golden Lion
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Throne of Blood
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Film SynopsisOne 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 - a classic tale of ambition and duplicity set against a ghostly landscape of fog and inescapable doom. Get Involved |
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Runtime:
109 min.
Genres:
Drama
Foreign Language
Country:
JAPAN
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Plot Summary
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Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Produced by
Shojiro Motoki
Writing credits
Hideo oguni
Aibra Kurosawa
Ryuzo Kikushima
Shinobu Hashimoto
Cast
| Isuzu Yamada | ||
| Yoichi Tachikawa | ||
| Takashi Shimura | ||
| Takamaru Sasaki | ||
| Chieko Naniwa | ||
| Toshiro Mifune | ||
| Akira Kubo | ||
| Minoru Chiaki |
Amazing - great Macbeth adaptation. Very interesting how the Shakespearean story translated into the samurai world. Watched this and the Orson Welles version at the same time and thought Wells cracked the witches, but Kurosawa cracked everything else. Loved the ending -- so appropriate to the place and story. Watch ... read more
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