Throne of Blood
THRONE OF BLOOD (PG)
D: Akira Kurosawa
Toho (Akira Kurosawa & Sojiro Motoki)
Japan 1957
105 mins
Adventure/War/Drama
W: Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryuzo Kikushima &
Akira Kurosawa [based on the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare]
DP: Asaichi Nakai
Ed: Akira Kurosawa
Mus: Masaru Sato
PD: Yoshiro Muraki & Kohei Ezaki
Toshiro Mifune (Washizu Taketoki), Isuzu Yamada (Washizu
Asaji), Takashi Shimura (Odakura Noriyasu), Minoru Chiaki (Miki Yoshiaki), Akira Kubo (Miki Yoshiteru)
Akira Kurosawa's take on Shakespeare's Macbeth,
translating it into his native language and adapting it to represent old Japanese culture, in which a samurai, prompted by his wife and an old witch, murders his lord and suffers the
subsequent repercussions.
Like The Seven Samurai, this ranks amongst the director's
finest works, beautiful to watch and a solid adaptation from a piece of classic literature.
8/10
