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Throne of Blood (蜘蛛巣城, Kumonosu-jō, literally "Spider Web Castle") is a 1957 film directed by Akira Kurosawa, which transposes the plot of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth to medieval Japan. It is regarded as one of Kurosawa's best films, and by many critics as one of the best film adaptations of Macbeth, despite having almost none of the play's script.
Kurosawa follows the events of Macbeth, although Kurosawa’s Washizu Taketori (played by Toshirō Mifune) is arguably less evil than Macbeth....
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