Throne of Blood

Double Feature with HAMLET (GAMLET)

(1957) dir Akira Kurosawa w/Toshiro Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada [110 min; 35mm]
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, THRONE OF BLOOD sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fogenshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. As a hardened warrior who rises savagely to power, Toshiro Mifune gives a remarkable, animalistic performance, as does Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife.