THRONE OF BLOOD [BLU-RAY]

Details

• Release Year: 1957
• Genre: Action, Classic, Drama, Foreign
• Plot: A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaption.; Throne Of Blood, direected by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare's definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal japan. As a hardened warrior who rises savgely to power, Toshiro Mifune gives a remarkable, animalistic performance, as does Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife. Throne Of Blood fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
• Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Minoru Chiaki, Takamaru Sasaki, Kokuten Kôdô, Kichijirô Ueda, Eiko Miyoshi, Chieko Naniwa, Nakajirô Tomita, Yû Fujiki, Sachio Sakai, Shin Ôtomo, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yoshio Inaba, Takeo Oikawa, Akira Tani, Ikio Sawamura, Yutaka Sada, Seijirô Onda, Shinpei Takagi, Masao Masuda, Shôbun Inoue, Takeshi Katô, Hitoshi Takagi, Michiya Higuchi, Senkichi Ômura, Gorô Sakurai, Shirô Tsuchiya, Takeo Matsushita, Jun Ôtomo, Kamayuki Tsubono, Fuminori Ôhashi, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryûzô Kikushima, William Shakespeare
• Director: Akira Kurosawa
• Runtime: 1:50
• Company: Janus Films, Toho, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie