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Throne Of Blood (1957)

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Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Starring:

Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki

Genres:

Drama, Action-Adventure, Shakespeare

Origin:

Japan

Certificate:

PG

Languages:

Japanese With Subtitles

Running Time:

105 min

Throne Of Blood

synopsis


Kurosawa's film career began in 1936 at the Photo Chemical Laboratories in Tokyo. His directorial debut in 1943, Judo Saga, bore evidence of his economy of expression and marked his humanist approach. His Rashomon won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, and this led to the 'discovery' of his other works, and those of his mentors and peers, notably Ozu and Mizoguchi. Kurosawa's popularity in the west and his involvement in international co-productions has maintained his status as one of cinema's great directors. Kurosawa's transposition of Shakespeare's Macbeth to sixteenth century Japan is, like the great Russian adaptations of King Lear and Hamlet, immensely successful in capturing the 'spirit' of the original. Any loss in language or characterisation is more than compensated by the evocation of the misty and forbidding locale, the bravura ghostly apparitions, and the fascinating incursions of specifically Japanese elements, such as the echoes of Noh drama.

 
 

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