Throne of Blood (Kurosawa 1957) Dual-Audio 512x384 H264.nfo
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa 1957) Dual-Audio 512x384 H264
Throne of Blood (1957)
Kumonosu-jô (original title)
Unrated | 1h 50min | Drama | 22 November 1961 (USA)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050613/
Rating: 8.1
A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a
prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Hideo Oguni (screenplay), Shinobu Hashimoto (screenplay) | 2 more credits »
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada
File: MP4
File size: 631 MB
Duration: 1:49:44
Video: H.264/AVC 512 x 384
Audio: AAC mono 96 Kbits (X 2)
Second audio has commentary by Michael Jecks
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, muxed (switchable); External SRT also incl.
NOTE: Please ignore the spurious second subtitles track.
Review by Jonathan Crow (Allmovie.com)
One of the most successful Shakespeare adaptations for the screen, Akira
Kurosawa's Throne of Blood strips away Macbeth's minor characters and long
soliloquies, turns the witch scenes into a strange supernatural encounter,
and transforms the Scottish landscape into a misty visage of feudal Japan.
Kurosawa masterfully employs style and composition to create a closed
world in which the film's tragic outcome seems pre-ordained. Such visual
motifs as fog, wind, and rain, juxtaposed with the austere interior of
Washizu's castle, create an eerie, foreboding feel, while Kurosawa's use
of stark blacks and whites, coupled with his persistent use of hard edits,
seem to place the characters in stylistic confinement. Not unlike
Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), Kurosawa uses repetition,
such as the image of Washizu's emerging from the fog, to suggest the
futility of the characters' actions. Rarely has a Kurosawa film been
rendered with such bleakness. Throne of Blood is a visually brilliant,
emotionally powerful masterpiece from one of the true masters of cinema.
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