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  1. Plot. Generals Miki and Washizu are samurai commanders and friends under Tsuzuki, a local lord who reigns in the castle of the Spider's Web Forest. After defeating the lord's enemies in battle, they return to his castle.

  2. Throne of Blood: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo. A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

  3. A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeares definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan.

  4. Throne of Blood is generally regarded as one of Akira Kurosawa's coldest Samurai movies. There is none of the roguish good humour of The Hidden Forest, the elegiac humanism of Seven Samurai, the...

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  5. Aug 6, 2017 · HD Trailer for the 1957 Akira Kurosawa film. A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare's definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a...

  6. Throne of Blood. 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.

  7. Throne of Blood. Jump to Edit. Summaries. A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle. After securing a major victory on the battlefield, Taketoti Washizu and one of his commanders, Yoshiaki Miki, find themselves lost in the maze-like Spider's Web forest.

  8. One of a number of films that Akira Kurosawa made in the 1950s and which have become classics, Throne of Blood is the director's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan but showing that lust for power is a perennial feature of human society.

  9. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki. A vivid, visceral “Macbeth” adaptation, THRONE OF BLOOD, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeares definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan.

  10. www.bfi.org.uk › film › f92d3ebc-4414-5cc8-866a-5001a4874110Throne of Blood (1957) | BFI

    A master of period-drama, Akira Kurosawa recasts Macbeth as a Japanese warlord in one of the greatest Shakespearean adaptations.