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Kumonosu-jō [videorecording] = Throne of blood / The Criterion Collection ; Janus Films ; [a Toho production] ; produced by Kurosawa Akira, Motoki Sojiro ; written by Kurosawa Akira, Hashimoto Shinobu, Kikushima Ryuzo, and Oguni Hideo ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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Language:
Japanese, English, In Japanese with optional subtitles in English.
Imprint:
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2009.
Format:
  • Video
  • 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title Variation:
Throne of blood
Collective title on box set container: AK100 : 25 films by Akira Kurosawa
AK 100
Note:
Credits from English subtitles and book which accompanies set. After Shakespeare's Macbeth. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957. Book (96 p. : ill. ; 19 x 31 cm.) included in box set entitled: AK100 : 25 films by Akira Kurosawa. "AK100D15--Disc label.
Production Credits:
Photography, Nakai Asaichi ; music, Sato Masaru.
Participant:
Mifune Toshiro, Yamada Isuzu, Minoru Chiaki, Shimura Takashi, Kubo Akira.
Summary:
Reimagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa's longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells of a valiant warrior's savage rise to power and his ignominious fall.
Format:
DVD; mono.; fullscreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.33:1.
Contributor:
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
Motoki, Sojiro.
Kikushima, Ryūzō, 1914-1989.
Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-
Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996.
Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.
Yamada, Isuzu, 1917-2012.
Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999.
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
Janus Films.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Related Work:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth.
Series:
AK100 (Criterion Collection (Firm)) ; disc 15.
Subjects:
ISBN:
9781604652260
1604652268
Publisher No.:
AK100D15 Criterion Collection CC1858D Criterion Collection (set)

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