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03/26/09
Throne of Blood (1957)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:31
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... [More]
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Reviews for Throne of Blood
Top CriticAkira 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.
07/01/08
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07/01/08
Top CriticOne of Kurosawa's best and arguably the best Shakespeare ever filmed.
05/30/08
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.
10/06/07
Toshiro Mifune gives a winning quirky performance.
04/05/07
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
01/04/07
With its all-pervading sense of doom, this is a serious contender for the finest celluloid Shakespeare of them all.
12/30/06
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.
02/09/06
Top CriticNo review available.
01/07/05
No review available.
03/10/04
It is, in our opinion, one of the greatest of reasons to go to the movies.
03/09/04
One of the best Shakespearean film adaptations out there.
02/22/04
No review available.
11/04/03
Kurosawa's film ranks as a classic that holds up over the years for its tight construction and masterful cinematic technique
07/31/03
This is filmmaking with risk and greatness in its blood.
07/30/03
Top CriticFilters themes of greed and power lust through visuals that are so rich and densely textured that they take on a life of their own.
07/30/03
Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's searing adaptation of Macbeth, fluidly weaves Shakespeare's fluid lyricism with a distinct Japanese flavor.
07/29/03
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.
07/23/03
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