THRONE OF BLOOD

• JAPANESE CLASSICS
• Venue: Cinema Museum, London, SE11 4TH

• Date: Tuesday 20 January 
• Time: 7.30pm
• Intro + post-film discussion

Year: 1957

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada
 
Synopsis: Kurosawa’s transposition of Shakespeare’s Macbeth to sixteenth-century Japan is immensely successful in capturing the spirit of the original. A truly remarkable film combining beauty and terror to produce a mood of haunting power, Throne of Blood also shows Kurosawa’s familiar mastery of atmosphere, action, and the savagery of war.