THRONE OF BLOOD (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1957
• Genre: Action, Drama
• Plot: One of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare, Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood reimagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa's longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells the tale 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 its own-a classic tale of ambition and duplicity set against a ghostly landscape of fog and inescapable doom.
• Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Takamaru Sasaki, Kokuten Kodo, Kichijiro Ueda, Eiko Miyoshi, Chieko Naniwa, Nakajiro Tomita, Yû Fujiki, Sachio Sakai, Shin Otomo, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Senkichi Omura, Yoshio Inaba, Takeo Obugawa, Akira Tani, Ikio Sawamura, Yutaka Sada, Seijirô Onda, Shinpei Takagi, Masao Masuda, Akifumi Inoue, Kyoro Sakurai, Kaneyuki Tsubono, Takeshi Katô, Hitoshi Takagi, Higuchi, Shiro Tsuchiya, Takaeo Matsushita, Jun Otomo, Fuminori Ohashi, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura, Akira Kurosawa, William Shakespeare
• Director: Akira Kurosawa
• Runtime: 1:49
• Company: Toho Pictures Inc.
• Media Format: Movie