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By Chris B (2,902) on 22 Feb 2014

Throne of Blood is another masterful work from the legendary duo of director Akira Kurosawa and his prominent leading man Toshiro Mifune in…

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By Juli N (550) on 12 Feb 2014

Brilliant, a great double bill for me with Men Behind The Sun…

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By Pavandeep S (469) on 12 Feb 2014

Brilliant, a great double bill for me with Men Behind The Sun…

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By Christopher Long (186) for Movie Metropolis (1,779) on 23 Jan 2014

These most powerful of men are just puppets or, more aptly, fools embracing the illusion that they are masters of a world that views them as…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 13 Jan 2014

Unavoidable consequence of human ambition…

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By Matt M (2,511) on 03 Jan 2014

Kurusawa is once again inspred by Shakespeare in his reconception of Macbeth as a Samurai film…

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By P. P (134) on 27 Dec 2013

Throne of Blood is not my favourite Kurosawa but I still love it (and the arrow scene at the end)…

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By Thomas Z (116) on 21 Dec 2013

This is THE in in only Macbeth Film you habe to watch…

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By Antonio T (238) on 12 Dec 2013

Como acostumbra Kurosawa, tiene un ritmo glacial, escenas de mucho silencio en las cuales, si no estás muy activo que digamos, te pondrán…

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By Gavin S (642) on 11 Dec 2013

Best Macbeth ever filmed? Ummm yes. Best Macbeth adaptation to show high school kids to get them interested in the Bard? Hells yes…

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By Hung-Ya L (416) on 03 Aug 2013

Throne of Blood is my very own introduction to Shakespeare though not the first. The combination of Kurosawa and Mifune is simply unbeatable…

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By Seth M (390) on 01 Aug 2013

William Shakespeare + Akira Kurosawa = 5 star movie. Aesthetically, Kurosawa made some of If not the coolest movies…

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By Damjan R (210) on 08 Jun 2013

This is kind of a kickass take on MacBeth…

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By Wezul S (323) on 24 May 2013

Kurosawa's retelling of Macbeth in feudal Japan is beautiful & sinister…

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By John C (2,737) on 10 May 2013

Riveting adaptation of Macbeth with one of the more intense and frightening finales I've seen on film…

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By Eric H (2,898) on 16 Apr 2013

Mixing Shakespeare, Japanese history, and Noh theatre, Kurosawa delivers a movie full of fog and ghosts, smoke and mirrors, and a general creepiness…

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By The Phantom C (176) on 15 Mar 2013

Toshiro Mifune's best performance in a samurai movie may be his portrayal of Washizu, the MacBeth figure in Kumonosu jo (Spider's Web Castle)…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 04 Mar 2013

No stage production could match Kurosawa's Birnam Wood, and, in his final framing of the hero -- a human hedgehog, stuck with arrows -- he…

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By Bruce B (1,130) on 17 Feb 2013

Incredibly predictable, but still Kurosawa. I knew exactly where it was going the entire time, and it's not cause I already knew the story of Macbeth…

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By Simon O (100) on 17 Feb 2013

Incredibly predictable, but still Kurosawa. I knew exactly where it was going the entire time, and it's not cause I already knew the story of Macbeth…

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