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  1. Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru (1960 Film)

    aka: The Bad Sleep Well

    Director
    Akira Kurosawa
    Producer
    Akira Kurosawa; Tomoyuki Tanaka

    Kurosawa directed three adaptations from Shakespeare. Two were recreated as samurai movies: Macbeth became THRONE OF BLOOD (1957), and King Lear inspired his last major film, the epic RAN (1985). THE BAD...

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  2. Kumonosu-Jo (1957 Film, Video)

    aka: Throne of Blood

    Director
    Akira Kurosawa
    Producer
    Akira Kurosawa

    The story of MACBETH transposed to medieval Japan, with Macbeth as a samurai and drawing on traditions from Noh drama. Toshiro Mifune is Macbeth. In Kurosawa’s masterly interpretation of MACBETH ‘the...

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