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Throne of Blood = Kumonosujō
Title
Throne of Blood = Kumonosujō [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha ; seisaku, Kurowasa Akira, Motoki Sōjirō ; kantoku, Kurosawa Akira.
蜘蛛巣城 [videorecording] / Janus Films ; 東宝株式会社 ; 製作黒澤明, 本木荘二郎 ; 監督黒澤明.
ISBN
9781604652123
1604652128
Published
[Los Angeles] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection, c2009.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally produced as motion picture in 1957.
Script, Kurosawa Akira, Kikushima Ryūzo, Hashimoto Shinobu, Oguni Hideo ; photography, Nakai Asaichi ; music, Satō Masaru ; English adaptation, Donald Richie.
Script, 黒澤明, 菊島隆三, 橋本忍, 小国英雄 ; photography, 中井朝一 ; music, 佐藤勝; English adaptation, Donald Richie.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Summary
Presents an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. A Samurai lord kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
Variant and related titles
Kumonosujō
Title on container: Janus films presents essential art house throne of blood
Disc label has English title: Throne of blood
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Japanese
Added to Catalog
January 12, 2012
Series
Essential Art House
Credits
Script, Kurosawa Akira, Kikushima Ryūzo, Hashimoto Shinobu, Oguni Hideo ; photography, Nakai Asaichi ; music, Satō Masaru ; English adaptation, Donald Richie.
Script, 黒澤明, 菊島隆三, 橋本忍, 小国英雄 ; photography, 中井朝一 ; music, 佐藤勝; English adaptation, Donald Richie.
Cast
Mifune Toshirō, Yamada Isuzu, Shimura Takahashi, Chiaki Minoru, Tachikawa Yōichi, Kubo Akira, Sasaki Takamaru, Naniwa Chieko.
三船敏郎, 山田五十鈴, 志村喬, 千秋実, 太刀川洋一, 久保明, 佐々木孝丸, 浪花千栄子.
System details note
DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; Dolby Digital mono.
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Samurai films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
黒澤明, 1910-1998.
三船敏郎, 1920-1997.
山田五十鈴, 1917-
志村喬, 1905-1982.
浪花千栄子, 1917-1999.
千秋実, 1917-1999.
太刀川洋一.
久保明.
佐々木孝丸, 1898-1986.
Janus Films.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
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