Select Japan is excited to bring the new restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood to The Garden Cinema. This astonishing film is among the the great Shakespeare adaptations, fusing Macbeth with ghostly Japanese folklore and elements of noh theatre.

One of Kurosawa's masterpieces, Throne of Blood combines 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 Isuzu Yamada as the Lady Macbeth-inspired Asaji, the film shows Kurosawa's familiar control of atmosphere and action combined with the savagery of war.

Cast:
Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa