Throne of Blood (1957)
With Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Akira Kubo, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Inaba, Hiroshi Tachikawa
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Throne of Blood (Japanese: 蜘蛛巣城, Hepburn: Kumonosu-jō; lit. 'The Spider Web Castle') is a 1957 Japanese epic jidaigeki film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot of English dramatist William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (1606) from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama. The film stars Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada in the lead roles, modelled on the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
▶ Watch Throne of BloodSaved films live in this browser, no account needed. See your list.
Also filed under
More from POST-WAR
More from the 1950s
FAQ
Where can I watch Throne of Blood for free?
Throne of Blood streams free on MOVIE REWIND, with no ads, no account and no algorithm. Press play and it runs straight through, all 1h 50m of it.
What year is Throne of Blood from?
Throne of Blood dates from 1957, directed by Akira Kurosawa. On MOVIE REWIND it plays on the POST-WAR channel.
Is Throne of Blood in the public domain?
MOVIE REWIND indexes films that are in the public domain or made freely available on YouTube by their rights holders. Every title is health-checked, so if a copy is pulled it drops out of the rotation.
MOVIE REWIND is free and always will be: no ads, no account, no algorithm. It is kept running by one person, and the catalogue and all of its metadata are given away under CC0. If it showed you something worth watching, you can chip in.
Buy the archivist a coffee