Throne of Blood

Director Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ran) transposes Macbeth to medieval Japan.

Throne of Blood stars Toshiro Mifune as an ambitious general who aspires to be Emperor, inspired by a ghostly prophesy and urged on by a scheming wife. (110 mins., 35mm, Japanese with English subtitles)

Based on the Play by William Shakespeare is programmed in conjunction with The Year of Shakespeare, which celebrates the culmination of the initial three-year partnership between The Ohio State University and the Royal Shakespeare Company and is sponsored by Ohio State's Arts Initiative as part of that partnership. Cosponsors for The Year of Shakespeare are the Wexner Center for the Arts, the School of Music, the Department of Theatre, and the Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute at the Ohio State University Libraries.