Throne of Blood (Japanese: 蜘蛛巣城, Hepburn: Kumonosu-jō, lit. 'Spider Web Castle') is a 1957 Japanese jidaigeki film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa,. The film transposes the plot of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama. The film stars Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada in the lead roles, modelled on the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
Throne of Blood was Kurosawa's second encounter with Shakespeare during his career. In 1960, Kurosawa directed The Bad Sleep Well, based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. In 1985, he directed the film Ran, based on King Lear. Despite the changes in setting and language, all three films have received critical acclaim.
CAST
Toshiro Mifune: Taketoki Washizu (Macbeth)
Isuzu Yamada: Lady Asaji Washizu (Lady Macbeth)
Takashi Shimura: Noriyasu Odagura (Macduff)
Akira Kubo: Yoshiteru Miki (Fleance)
Yōichi Tachikawa: Kunimaru Tsuzuki (Malcolm)
Minoru Chiaki: Yoshiaki Miki (Banquo])
Takamaru Sasaki: Lord Kuniharu Tsuzuki (King Duncan)
Read Shakespeare's Complete Works online for free: https://shakespearenetwork.net/works/
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Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - https://www.misanthropos.net
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6946736/
Throne of Blood was Kurosawa's second encounter with Shakespeare during his career. In 1960, Kurosawa directed The Bad Sleep Well, based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. In 1985, he directed the film Ran, based on King Lear. Despite the changes in setting and language, all three films have received critical acclaim.
CAST
Toshiro Mifune: Taketoki Washizu (Macbeth)
Isuzu Yamada: Lady Asaji Washizu (Lady Macbeth)
Takashi Shimura: Noriyasu Odagura (Macduff)
Akira Kubo: Yoshiteru Miki (Fleance)
Yōichi Tachikawa: Kunimaru Tsuzuki (Malcolm)
Minoru Chiaki: Yoshiaki Miki (Banquo])
Takamaru Sasaki: Lord Kuniharu Tsuzuki (King Duncan)
Read Shakespeare's Complete Works online for free: https://shakespearenetwork.net/works/
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Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - https://www.misanthropos.net
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6946736/
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LearningTranscript
00:00I'm going to kill you!
00:30Oh, my God!
00:39The storm is coming!
00:41The storm is coming!
00:44Oh, my God!
00:52Oh, my God!
00:55Oh, my God!
01:00What a terrible storm!
01:05The forest where the Onono family live.
01:08Surrounded by the forest,
01:10a castle surrounded by the fog of war.
01:14The castle of the clouds.
01:23The throne of power.
01:28Those who fight for the throne of power
01:32and those who worship it with their blood
01:40go to war to wash away their blood.
01:53And here again, a woman who is tired of power and goes to war.
02:00There are only two ways to go to the throne of power.
02:05One is to be killed by the king.
02:10And the other is to be killed by the king and become the ruler of the clouds.
02:18Kill the king.
02:30Kill the king.
02:41And kill the king.
02:45Kill the king.
02:52At the end of the Shuramo period, the clouds rose again.
02:56The strange life of Washizu Taketoki.
03:10The end of the Shuramo period.