One of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare into film, Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood re-imagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa’s longtime collaborator Toshiro ...

Akira Kurosawa’s “Throne of Blood” (Criterion, 1957) debuts on DVD with relatively few supplements. Yet aside from a handful of printed essays and a casual yet informative audio c… ...

Throne of Blood opens and closes in fog as if the heavy mist provided a secret portal transporting the play from Scotland to Japan. Although Throne of Blood translates Shakespeares play into ...

Many filmmakers - from Orson Welles to Roman Polanski - have tackled "the Scottish play" but few have been as successful as Akira Kurosawa with Throne of Blood. On the surface, the story is the ...