Throne of Blood

Akira Kurosawa, 1957

Spine #190

Picked by 4 guests

Drama / History

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

Written by Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa

Cinematography Asakazu Nakai

Edited by Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Minoru Chiaki, Takamaru Sasaki, Gen Shimizu

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Edgar Wright director

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Bong Joon Ho director

“Throne of Blood, grandissimo Kurosawa.”

Bong Joon Ho

Marco Bellocchio director

“Il Trono di Sangue perché Kurosawa è un grande e poi perché la tragedia di Macbeth è qualcosa che mi ha sempre molto colpito, io l'ho anche rappresentato a teatro e questa rappresentazione giapponese di Macbeth è veramente geniale.”

Marco Bellocchio

Oscar Isaac actor

“Throne of Blood is my favorite Shakespeare on film and, ironically, it has none of Shakespeare’s dialogue in it. But there’s something about the way that he cracked open Macbeth and, of course, setting it in feudal Japan and just all of that imagery, it just... It all makes sense suddenly. And Toshiro Mifune at his absolute most vicious and incredible, the gravity that he has in this, it’s astounding.”

Oscar Isaac