Throne of Blood

Pros: tense, gritty, well acted drama.
Cons: Not exactly mainstream stuff.

You may have noticed that in my previous reviews for a Kurosawa film I've compared his films favorably to the films that he was to later influence. This is because Akira Kurosawa is a director who has influenced a large portion of the films you may have s ...

Pros: Mifune, adds depth and reason to Shakespeare's shortest tragedy
Cons: The Throne of Blood DVD will curse your DVD player, if you mention its name

I spent much of May teaching "Hamlet" to a Grade 12 English class. After getting over the cognitive dissonance that it was me teaching them about the Bard, and his great Danish prince, we had much fun dissecting the play's many themes, ...

Pros: Kurosawa's Direction, Script, Cinematography, Staging, Music, & Cast.
Cons: None.

While Akira Kurosawa has been known for putting a lot of elements from other worlds into his films, notably samurai movies. His love for American westerns and such helped reinvent the samurai picture, notably his 1954 masterpiece The Seven Samurai ...

Pros: Toshiro Mifune. Its based on Shakespeare
Cons: Would someone break that flute please?

The movie Throne of Blood is based on Shakespeare's Macbeth, only it features Samurai. This movie is by the director of Seven Samurai and also stars Toshiro Mifune ( Kikuchiyo in Seven Samurai). It's a black and white movie from 1957 that has Japanese ...

Pros: direction, cinematography, story, script, cast
Cons: some will find it slow, subtitled

"The Seven Samurai" is generally considered to be Kurosawa's best work. But my favorite film from the Japanese director is his inspiration from Shakespeare's "Macbeth", "Throne of Blood". Adapted to feudal Japan, it is the...

Pros: Mythology, Shakespeare, evil spirits, MacBeth, Akira Kurosawa
Cons: Limited scenery

One of my favorite Akira Kurosawa films, Throne of Blood (with its better title Spider's Web Castle) is a Japanese version of Shakespeare's MacBeth by the brilliant Asian filmmaker. I didn't know it was a cinematic version of MacBeth until after seeing ...

Pros: Masterful manipulation of viewer's emotions
Cons: Funny typos in the subtitles

Time for me to carve one more notch on my Kurosawa stick. I just saw Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, for the first time this past weekend, and like every Kurosawa movie I get around to seeing, this one...

Pros: Fear is greatly shown, and the characters played parts VERY well.
Cons: subtitles were a drawback

After reading MacBeth, I was delighted to discover that Kurosawa's film, The Throne of Blood, was an adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy. Throne of Blood kept me on the edge of my seat, and although certain parts, such as the witch's chant and the...