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Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 32
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Consensus: A career high point for Akira Kurosawa -- and one of the best film adaptations of a Shakespeare play.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Akira Kurosawa's stunning reconception of Shakespeare's MACBETH is a dark samurai drama, set in feudal Japan. As the film begins, two soldiers--Washizu (Toshirô Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki)--find themselves lost in a dense forest... [More]
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa's remarkable 1957 restaging of Macbeth in samurai and expressionist terms is unquestionably one of his finest works -- charged with energy, imagination, and, in keeping with the subject, sheer horror.
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Top Critic One of Kurosawa's best and arguably the best Shakespeare ever filmed.
In fact, in the scene where Lady Asaji leaves a room and disappears into the darkness to get sake to make the guards drunk, the ominous rustling of her silk gown is as chilling as Lady Macbeth's lines.
Transplanted to medieval Japan, Kurosawa's brutal film is one of the best Shakesperean adaptations on screen, with a tour de force performance from Toshiro Mifune; it makes a fascinating double bill with the masterful Ran
With its all-pervading sense of doom, this is a serious contender for the finest celluloid Shakespeare of them all.
Top Critic It's visually ravishing, as you would expect, employing compositional tableaux from the Noh drama, high contrast photography, and extraordinary images of rain, galloping horses, the birds fleeing from the forest.
Top Critic Kurosawa's film ranks as a classic that holds up over the years for its tight construction and masterful cinematic technique
Top Critic Filters themes of greed and power lust through visuals that are so rich and densely textured that they take on a life of their own.
Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's searing adaptation of Macbeth, fluidly weaves Shakespeare's fluid lyricism with a distinct Japanese flavor.
May not approach the lofty standards of something like The Seven Samurai, but it certainly stands as one of the director’s finest and most accessible efforts.
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