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Kumonosujō
Title
Kumonosujō / Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha ; seisaku, Kurosawa Akira, Motoki Sōjirō ; kyakuhon, Kurosawa Akira, Oguni Hideo, Hashimoto Shinobu, Kikushima Ryūzō ; kantoku, Kurosawa Akira.
蜘蛛巢城 / 東宝株式会社 ; 製作, 黒澤明, 本木荘二郎 ; 脚本, 黒澤明, 小國英雄, 橋本忍, 菊島隆三 ; 監督, 黒澤明.
ISBN
9781604658033
1604658037
1681430444
9781681430447
Edition
Dual-format edition.
DVD edition.
Publication
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Based on Shakespears's Macbeth.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.
Special features: Commentary (featuring Japanese-film expert Michael Jeck); Akira Kurosawa: it is wonderful to create (documentary on the making of the film, part of the Toho Masterworks series); Trailer; Two alternate English subtitle translations by Japanese-film translator Linda Hoaglund and Kurosawa expert Donald Richie. Booklet featuring essay by film historian Stephen Prince and notes on the subtitling by Hoaglund and Richie.
Music, Masaru Sato ; cinematography, Asakazu Nakai.
Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Summary
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, directed by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), sets Shakespeare's definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. The film fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh Theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
Variant and related titles
Title on container: Akira Kurosawa's Throne of blood.
Also known as: Throne of blood.
Also known as: Throne of blood (Spider's web castle)
Also known as: Kumonosu-jo.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Japanese
Added to Catalog
March 08, 2017
Series
Criterion collection ; 190.
Credits
Music, Masaru Sato ; cinematography, Asakazu Nakai.
Cast
Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Minoru Chiaki, Takamaru Sasaki.
System details note
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Samurai films.
War films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Also listed under
黒澤明, 1910-1998, film producer, screenwriter, film director.
小国英雄, 1904-1996. screenwriter.
本木荘二郎. film producer.
三船敏郎, 1920-1997. actor.
志村乔, 1905-1982. actor.
山田五十鈴, 1917-2012 actor.
佐藤勝, 1928-1999, composer (expression)
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.
東宝株式会社. production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
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