What is Rashomon / Throne of Blood about?

Name: Rashomon / Throne of Blood
Genre: Drama

RASHOMON, 1950, Janus Films, 88 min. A tragic event involving a husband (Masayuki Mori), his wife (Machiko Kyo) and a bandit (Toshiro Mifune) is recounted by witnesses yielding conlicting accounts. Director Akira Kurosawa explores the nature of truth, examining very different versions of what happened that one fateful day in a lonely forest. THRONE OF BLOOD, (KUMONOSU JÔ), 1957, Janus Films, 105 min. Director Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Macbeth is a gothic samurai melodrama blending Elizabethan tragedy and Noh Theater. Toshiro Mifune is coaxed by his ambitious spouse, Isuzu Yamada, to murder his lord to rise to become ruler. But in the process, he is overwhelmed by madness and the forces of chaos.

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What is Rashomon / Throne of Blood about?: RASHOMON, 1950, Janus Films, 88 min. A tragic event involving a husband (Masayuki Mori), his wife (Machiko Kyo) and a bandit (Toshiro Mifune) is recounted by witnesses yielding conlicting accounts. Director Akira Kurosawa explores the nature of truth, examining very different versions of what happened that one fateful day in a lonely forest.

THRONE OF BLOOD, (KUMONOSU JÔ), 1957, Janus Films, 105 min. Director Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Macbeth is a gothic samurai melodrama blending Elizabethan tragedy and Noh Theater. Toshiro Mifune is coaxed by his ambitious spouse, Isuzu Yamada, to murder his lord to rise to become ruler. But in the process, he is overwhelmed by madness and the forces of chaos.