I much prefer his acting in Yojimbo & Sanjuro, High and Low, and others where he's not "on" all throughout the movie. Akira Kurosawa's always managed to tell sweeping stories with his films, and in doing so, he was able to make several highly entertaining and memorable pictures. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

Widely regarded as one of the most successful film adaptations of a Bard play.

| Rating: 4/4 He's practically manic in nearly every scene, looking terribly confused, like he's about to explode. Washizu is a brave samurai who helps his lord to fight off a violent rebellion.

It's about betrayal and the hierarchy of power, and the choices it makes one make.

| But what a cinefile's delight !

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This time arming Macbeth with a katana and spear, Kurosawa finds anxiety, paranoia, delirium, and haunting magic within Macbeth as he turns a period drama into a Japanese horror fable.

As pressure mounts, Wahizu takes action leading to its inevitable conclusion.He glances at Washizu, then back at the Old Ghost Woman

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Still, Throne of Blood changes Macbeth in a number of ways. It's a pretty outstanding adaptation/reinterpretation of "Macbeth" with Mifune's unhinged performance anchoring the film. This is based on McBeth, but it very much feels like it's own story set in 15th century Japan. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Akira Kurosawa's rendition of William Shakespeare's MACBETH - done samurai style. The machine learned model takes into account factors including: the age of a review, helpfulness votes by customers and whether the reviews are from verified purchases.Sorry, we failed to record your vote. You cannot go wrong.

Substituting the three witches for a ghostly apparition helps to speed up the action. 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. No stage production could match Kurosawa's Birnam Wood, and, in his final framing of the hero -- a human hedgehog, stuck with arrows -- he conjures a tragedy not laden with grandeur but pierced, like a dream, by the absurd. In the recent Hobbit Trilogy, the scene where trees were walking was taken from this film by Jackson.

| Some may complain that Criterion is too pricey but with them you get the best cinema has to offer. Akira Kurosawa’s war epic Throne of Blood (1957) is a mystical retelling of William Shakespeare’s legendary play Macbeth. The story line and cinematography in Throne of Blood are good examples of how Kurosawa transferred literary works to the screen. As usual Criterion presents its film in pristine condition. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Don’t worry, it won’t take long.

One of the best Shakespearean adaptations ever made, and that director Akira Kurosawa topped himself by helming the brilliant King Lear-inspired Ran 28 years later only cements the fact that he will always be heralded as one of the greats.

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