Other Products ｜Throne Of Blood 4K Ultra HD (BFI)

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SUMMARY

A new 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s astonishing film that’s considered to be one of the great adaptations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. 

 A truly remarkable film, Throne of Blood manages to combine beauty and terror to produce a mood of truly haunting power. Starring the irrepressible Toshiro Mifune as the doomed warlord Washizu and a wonderfully creepy turn by Isuzu Yamada as the Lady Macbeth-inspired Asaji, the film shows Kurosawa's familiar mastery of atmosphere and action combined with the savagery of war. 

ADDITIONAL INFO

Newly restored in 4K and presented in High Definition
Audio commentary by Japanese film expert Michael Jeck

Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create – Throne of Blood (2002, 23 mins): this documentary about the making of

Throne of Blood features interviews with Akira Kurosawa, production designer Yoshiro Muraki, Noh performer Mitsuhiro Honda (from the Konparu School), and actress Isuzu Yamada

Macbeth (1909, 16 mins): transposed from the typical dreich Scottish landscape to medieval Italy, this Italian version has Russian titles, demonstrating how widely exported these films were in the 1900s

Macbeth (1945, 16 mins): two scenes from Shakespeare’s famous Scottish tragedy, with Wilfrid Lawson and Cathleen Nesbitt as a fine murderous duo
Original trailer
**FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet with writing on the film by Alex Barrett, an essay on Kurosawa’s adaptations of Shakespeare by Ben Nicholson, Kurosawa on Throne of Blood (1964) and an original review

SKU
5022655000155

Catalogue Number
BFIU0015

Product contents
1 disc

Year
1957

Director
Akira Kurosawa

Format
4K Ultra HD

Publisher(s)
BFI

Countries
Japan

Colour
Black & White

Subtitles
English

Language(s)
Japanese

Running time
109 mins

Certificate
PG

BFICID_ID
150031507
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