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Throne Of Blood
VHS £15.99
Film Description You will find no poetry in Throne of Blood's sparse dialogue, and little subtlety in its characterisation, but its pace, atmosphere and imagery have a power that is absolutely Shakespearean. The Bard's evocation of tenth-century Scotland is brilliantly re-imagined in Kurosawa's depiction of late fifteenth-century Japan, a world full of bestial omens and foul weather. Toshiro Mifune rants and rages as Washizu, the Macbeth equivalent, spurred on by the mesmerizing Isuzu Yamada as his wife. The climatic battle gave cinema one of its most enduring images: Mifune transformed into a human pin cushion by the arrows of his own men.
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Review by anonymous on Transposition of Shakespeares Macbeth to 16th century Japan. "Visually the film is a marvel because it is made of so little: fog, wind, trees, mist - the forest and the castle. There has rarely been a blacker and a whiter, black-and-white film" Donald Richie.
Article - "Akira Kurosawa"
by Peter Wild
Akira Kurosawa is generally regarded to be one of the greatest directors to have ever worked in the medium. Lauded later in life by Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola (who said that, “of all film directors, Kurosawa is the only one whose films y... View article in full
Article - "Akira Kurosawa - A Restrained Affirmation"
by Peter Wild
I have Booker Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro to thank for my infatuation with Akira Kurosawa (or Kurosawa Akira as he is referred to in Japan). I interviewed Kazuo about ten years ago and he said that there was a film by Kurosawa that ranked as one of the grea... View article in full
Article - "Shakespeare on Film - Recommended Double-bills"
by Daniel Rosenthal
Shakespearean cinema divides into two broad schools: 'original-text' films such as Olivier's Henry V, which retain Shakespeare's sublime poetry and prose, and 'genre adaptations', whose re-imagined Shakespearean characters speak conventional movie dialogue. This comm... View article in full
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Shakespeare - The Complete Film Works Including: 10 Things I Hate About You, A Midsummer Nights Dream (BBC, 1981), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Noble, 1996), A Winters Tale (BBC, 1981), A Winters Tale (Rohmer, 1992), Alls Well That Ends Well (BBC), Animated Shakespeare Act 1 (The Taming of the Shrew & Macbeth), Animated Shakespeare Act 2 (Julius Caesar & Twelfth Night), Animated Shakespeare Act 3 (Hamlet & The Tempest), Animated Shakespeare Act 4 ( A Midsummer Nights Dream & Richard III).
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