| Release | May 27, 2003 |
| Video | Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 |
| Audio |
Japanese: Dolby Digital 1.0 |
| Subtitles | English |
| Studio | Criterion/Voyager |
| Year | 1957 |
| Genre | Drama |
- Audio commentary by Japanese-film expert Michael Jeck
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- New Essay by Stephen Prince (The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa)
- Two Different Subtitle Translations, Each by a World-Renowned Translator of Japanese Films: One by Linda Hoaglund, the Other by Donald Richie
- Notes on Subtitling By Linda Hoaglund and Donald Richie
One of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare, Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood reimagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa's longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells the tale of a valiant warrior's savage rise to power and his ignominious fall. With Throne of Blood, Kurosawa fuses one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies with the formal elements of Japanese Noh Theater to make a Macbeth that is all its own-a classic tale of ambition and duplicity set against a ghostly landscape of fog and inescapable doom.
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Toshiro MifuneCynthia Nixon"Throne Of Blood"
directed byAkira Kurosawa
Production Year: 1957
directed byAkira Kurosawa
Production Year: 1957
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