Summary: One of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare into film, Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" re-imagines "Macbeth" in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa's longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells of a valiant warrior's savage rise to power and his ignominious fall. With "Throne of Blood", Kurosawa fuses one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies with the formal elements of Japanese Noh theater to make a "Macbeth" that is all his owna classic tale of ambition and duplicity set against a ghostly landscape of fog and inescapable doom.