Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Throne Of Blood (1957)

Throne Of Blood (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Master Of North Castle

Taketoki (Toshiro Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki) have to stay cool as they receive what should be great news, fulfilling an ominous prediction, in Akira Kurosawa's version of "Macbeth," Throne Of Blood, 1957.

Throne Of Blood (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Pay No Attention

The wife (Isuzu Yamada) tells the guests it's just the Sake` talking, as warlord Taketoki (Toshiro Mifune) goes feudal on a ghost, in Akira Kurosawa's treatment of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," Throne Of Blood, 1957.

Throne Of Blood (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Fate's Five Calamities

Shakespeare in the medieval Japanese forest, as Taketoki (Toshiro Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki) come upon just one witch (Chieko Naniwa) in Akira Kurosawa's rendering of "Macbeth," Throne Of Blood, 1957.