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Throne of Blood Blu-ray

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Release Year: 1957

Runtime: 108 min

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa

Studios: TOHO, Kurosawa Production

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

Special Features:

New, restored 2K digital film transfer

, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

Audio commentary

featuring Japanese film expert Michael Jeck

Documentary

on the making of the film, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create

Two alternate subtitle translations

by Japanese film translator Linda Hoaglund and Kurosawa expert Donald Richie

Trailer

PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Stephen Prince and notes on the subtitling by Hoaglund and Richie

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