A truly remarkable film, Throne of Blood manages to combine beauty and terror to produce a mood of truly haunting power. Starring the irrepressible Toshiro Mifune as the doomed warlord Washizu and a wonderfully creepy turn by Isuzu Yamadaas the Lady Macbeth-inspired Asaji, the film shows Kurosawa's familiar mastery of atmosphere and action combined with the savagery of war.

Special Edition Features:

- New, restored 2K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring Japanese-film expert Michael Jeck
- Documentary on the making of Throne of Blood, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
- Two alternate subtitle translations, by Japanese-film translator Linda Hoaglund and Kurosawa expert Donald Richie
- Trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Stephen Prince and notes on the subtitling by Hoaglund and Richie.

Product details

Director	Akira Kurosawa
Actor	Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Sorimachi (J-Pop), Akira Kubo, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada
Label	CRITERION

Genre	Drama History War
Content	Blu-ray
Publication date	25.08.2015
Region code	A
Edition	b/w, Criterion Collection
Version	US Version
Original title	Kumonosu-jô (Japanese)
Year of production	1957
Audio	Japanese
Subtitles	English
Extras	Booklet, Documentations, Trailer, Audio commentary

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Customer reviews

Wenn die Wälder nach Rache dürsten....

Written on 18. June 2003 by der koma-läufer.
This customer review refers to a alternative version.

In einer dichten, unheimlichen Atmosphäre erzählt Kurosawa vom Aufstieg und Fall eines Samurais. ein Meisterwerk ohne seines gleichen.