When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place. Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
Some may complain that Criterion is too pricey but with them you get the best cinema has to offer. However, much of the praise lavished on Throne of Blood came in recent decades. |

As usual Criterion presents its film in pristine condition.

With that being said, he's one of the few filmmakers who has delivered time after time, and he never disappointed. Don’t worry, it won’t take long.

A bit slow in some areas of the film, but it does not ruin the movie at all. Even translated into the Japanese language, the timeless story of political intrigue, murder, greed and revenge remains a classic.

More than just MacBeth reskin. Akira Kurosawa's always managed to tell sweeping stories with his films, and in doing so, he was able to make several highly entertaining and memorable pictures. Binge Central NOT TO BE MISSED!! A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

| I love the cinematography, and the excellent acting by Toshiro Mifune (also one of the star actors of the epic ‘7 samurai’ film (also by Kurosawa). Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. In order to navigate out of this carousel, please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. The machine learned model takes into account factors including: the age of a review, helpfulness votes by customers and whether the reviews are from verified purchases.Sorry, we failed to record your vote. February 9, 2006 Was this review helpful to you? And Throne of Blood is a Macbeth adaptation, also set in feudal Japan, that follows Shakespeare more closely than either of the other two films.

Mifune will eventually be lord of the realm, and Chiaki's son (Akira Kubo) will succeed him. From the Criterion Collection Spine Number 190. Use the HTML below. In short what goes around comes around. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Theater box office or somewhere else Kurosawa was a great filmmaker, a cinematic genius.

As with most artists, there are some marvelous works and less interesting ones. Substituting the three witches for a ghostly apparition helps to speed up the action. It is not his finest work (see Seven Samurai, Ran, High and Low, etc.)
The story of Macbeth is well known and so what happens isn't a shock, and yet, it's so well-told and transplanted to feudal Japan, the film is riveting. As pressure mounts, Wahizu takes action leading to its inevitable conclusion.He glances at Washizu, then back at the Old Ghost Woman | When things come true for him, his wife warns him of the betrayal that will ensue. As a hardened warrior who rises savagely to power, Toshiro Mifune gives a remarkable, animalistic performance, as does Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife.

There are nuances and subtleties in the original verse that will continue to delight all lovers of English in a good interpretation- but images like these will remain unique. The tone of the film is dark, and like Seven Samurai before it, unfolds steadily to really grab your attention with strong visuals and breathtaking set pieces.

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It's visually ravishing, as you would expect, employing compositional tableaux from the Noh drama, high contrast photography, and extraordinary images of rain, galloping horses, the birds fleeing from the forest. Please try again. April 10, 2014

No stage production could match Kurosawa's Birnam Wood, and, in his final framing of the hero -- a human hedgehog, stuck with arrows -- he conjures a tragedy not laden with grandeur but pierced, like a dream, by the absurd. March 4, 2013

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Toshiro Mifune does a magnificent performance in this movie. Throne Of Blood defeats categorisation.