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Throne of Blood ( Japanese: 蜘蛛巣城, Hepburn: Kumonosu-jō, lit. 'The Spider Web Castle') is a 1957 Japanese jidaigeki film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.
Throne of Blood: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo. A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan.
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu (Toshirô Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki) are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures.
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Throne of Blood is a moody, intense, poetically shot movie that history will remember as one of the Japanese master’s best. The DVD/Blu-ray of the film is available from the Criterion Collection and other online retailers.
Synopsis. 『蜘蛛巣城』 Kurosawa's take on Macbeth: Miki and Washizu are samurai commanders under a local lord who reigns in the castle in the Spider Web Forest. After defeating the lord's enemies in battle, they return to the lord's castle.
Jan 6, 2014 · In Throne of Blood, with his keenly developed sense of Japanese history, he found a kind of mirror universe in the period of turmoil, treachery, and succession battles that Shakespeare wrote about in Macbeth. Shakespeare’s play derives from a regicide and other historical events in eleventh-century Scotland.
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan.
Overview. Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place.
Throne of Blood (1957) A master of period-drama, Akira Kurosawa recasts Macbeth as a Japanese warlord in one of the greatest Shakespearean adaptations. Subscribe to watch on BFI Player.
