• Film ID:
  • 3833
  • Availability:
  • DVD Available from Shop
  • Film cert:
  • Running time:
  • DVD=104 min.
  • Nationality(ies):
  • Japan.
  • Primary Language(s):
  • Japanese.
THRONE OF BLOOD (MACBETH) (1957)
Cast
Toshiro Mifune. Isuzu Yamada. Minoru Chiaki. Takashi Shimura. Akira Kubo. Takamaru Sasaki.
Director(s)
Akira Kurosawa.
Categories
Art House. Drama. 16th Century. Literary Classics. Classics. Shakespeare. Historical. Guardian 1000 Must See (2007). Peoples' Choice. Recommended.
Review
One of the world's greatest filmmakers, Kurosawa, adapts Shakespeare's Macbeth to 16th Century Japan - the loss in language being more than compensated for by the misty and forbidding locations and the clever incursions of Japanese culture.
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