Throne of Blood

Akira Kurosawa and Toshirô Mifune, two of world cinema's giants took on Shakespeare's Macbeth and created their own masterpiece. Kurosawa adapts the story of the murderous couple hungry for power into medieval Japan as if it was meant to be. What's lost in terms of language, is made up for visually and in the performance of Mifune. Some may argue that Kurosawa's ghost is better device than the original witches to unleash the tale of terror because war is hell and anything is possible to happen in that hell. The legendary Lady Macbeth is as cold and chilling as any blade in this film. YRCinema's coverage of films on DVD.