FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Throne of Blood
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer96%as of 2024-08-14
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.8/10as of 2021-10-05
What it is
Throne of Blood is a 1957 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed, co-written, produced, and edited by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot of English dramatist William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (1606) from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama.
At a glance
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- Japanese
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