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2 results found for '"Takashi Shimura"' in Person.
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...
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...