What is Throne Of Blood / Macbeth about?

Double Feature: MACBETH, 1971, Sony Repertory, 140 min. After months of deep depression over the murder of wife Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski stunned audiences with his dread-inducing cinematic rendition of the Shakespeare play. Jon Finch and Francesca Annis star as the ill-fated Macbeths in this atmospheric, hyperbolically violent classic. THRONE OF BLOOD, (KUMONOSU JO), 1957, Janus Films, 110 min. Director Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a chilling blend of gothic melodrama and samurai swordplay, Elizabethan tragedy and Noh theater. Taketori Washizu (Toshiro Mifune), coaxed by his frighteningly ambitious spouse, Lady Asaji (Isuzu Yamada), conspires to murder his lord and become ruler. In Japanese with English subtitles.

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What is Throne Of Blood / Macbeth about?: Double Feature: MACBETH, 1971, Sony Repertory, 140 min. After months of deep depression over the murder of wife Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski stunned audiences with his dread-inducing cinematic rendition of the Shakespeare play. Jon Finch and Francesca Annis star as the ill-fated Macbeths in this atmospheric, hyperbolically violent classic.

THRONE OF BLOOD, (KUMONOSU JO), 1957, Janus Films, 110 min. Director Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a chilling blend of gothic melodrama and samurai swordplay, Elizabethan tragedy and Noh theater. Taketori Washizu (Toshiro Mifune), coaxed by his frighteningly ambitious spouse, Lady Asaji (Isuzu Yamada), conspires to murder his lord and become ruler. In Japanese with English subtitles.