Sep 12, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 12 segments
We review Throne of Blood (1957) on movie podcast The Collector's Cut. Throne of Blood is directed by Akira Kurosawa and stars Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura patreon…
this one's based on Macbeth, right? So this is another based on a Shakespeare story movie, which obviously so was Ran.
And it's...
I mean, I
don't know the original Shakespeare story that well to tell you how much has changed, other than the fact that it's obviously feudal Japan,
which is the big change.
No, no, that was in the original too.
It was
I...
I know the basics.
I am aware of the general thing, but I've never actually seen a performance of it.
I've never seen an adaptation of it knowingly.
I'm sure that I remember scrolling through other adaptations just after I watched this one, just see what else had adapted it.
Wait, that's a Macbeth? Apparently! I was like, I don't remember that being a thing, but alright.
Very loosely, I bet, would be my guess.
I did four different Shakespeare stories in the course of English over the third through fifth year or whatever it was.
And...
However, they only had enough copies of it for like three classes, and my class was the one that didn't get it, so we ended up doing Merchant of Venice or something instead.
block like a lot of the other classes did.
That's fair.
this one's based on Macbeth, right? So this is another based on a Shakespeare story movie, which obviously so was Ran.
And it's...
I mean, I
don't know the original Shakespeare story that well to tell you how much has changed, other than the fact that it's obviously feudal Japan,
which is the big change.
No, no, that was in the original too.
It was
I...
I know the basics.
I am aware of the general thing, but I've never actually seen a performance of it.
I've never seen an adaptation of it knowingly.
I'm sure that I remember scrolling through other adaptations just after I watched this one, just see what else had adapted it.
Wait, that's a Macbeth? Apparently! I was like, I don't remember that being a thing, but alright.
Very loosely, I bet, would be my guess.
I did four different Shakespeare stories in the course of English over the third through fifth year or whatever it was.
And...
However, they only had enough copies of it for like three classes, and my class was the one that didn't get it, so we ended up doing Merchant of Venice or something instead.
block like a lot of the other classes did.
That's fair.
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