movie poster for THRONE OF BLOOD (MACBETH)

Flicks ID

3833

Cert

PG

Running time

104 mins

Country

Format

DVD

THRONE OF BLOOD (MACBETH) (1957)

AKIRA KUROSAWA

Plot

One of the world's greatest filmmakers, Kurosawa, adapts Shakespeare's Macbeth to 16th Century Japan - the loss in language being more than compensated for by the misty and forbidding locations and the clever incursions of Japanese culture.