Un generale temprato dalla guerra, istigato dall'ambiziosa moglie, si impegna a realizzare la profezia di divenire il signore del Castello della Ragnatela.Un generale temprato dalla guerra, istigato dall'ambiziosa moglie, si impegna a realizzare la profezia di divenire il signore del Castello della Ragnatela.Un generale temprato dalla guerra, istigato dall'ambiziosa moglie, si impegna a realizzare la profezia di divenire il signore del Castello della Ragnatela.
- Premi
- 4 vittorie e 1 candidatura
- Kunimaru Tsuzuki
- (as Yôichi Tachikawa)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizOriginally, Akira Kurosawa was planning on building merely a facade castle for the film, but this proved to be an impractical step, prompting the building of full castle sections to use in shooting. These were built with the help of United States Marines who were based in the area.
- BlooperWhen the witch runs in the forest, she briefly can be seen wearing sneakers.
- Citazioni
Old Ghost Woman: [singing] Men are vain and death is long, And pride dies first within the grave, For hair and nails are growing still, When face and fame are gone, Nothing in this world will save, Or measure up man's actions here, Nor in the next - for there is none, This life must end in fear, Only evil may maintain, An afterlife for those who will, Who love this world - who have no son, To whom ambition calls, Even so - this false fame falls, Death will reign - man dies in vain.
- ConnessioniFeatured in A Japanese Film Festival (1957)
If you know Kurosawa's Seven Samurai or Yojombo, your expectations going into Throne of Blood will probably let you down at first. The energy and visual flair are there, but expressed very differently: a suffocating formality and simmering rage replaces the vitality and dynamism of those other films. Lost in a thick, perpetual fog, Kurosawa's characters stumble around like broken puppets, heavily made up in Noh theater makeup that is at first hard to adjust to. it creates a useful distance, and underlines the power of the cruel hand of Fate, moving its victims across an apocalyptic landscape to a shockingly violent conclusion, one you would do well not to preview online before viewing the film.
Of his three adaptations - Ran being a masterful retelling of King Lear and The Bad Sleep Well using elements of Hamlet - this is the least accessible, but also the most visionary and unique. Oddly enough, it has similarities to Orson Welles' earlier adaptation made half a world away. Both films focus on tribal symbolism, are doused in fog and could never conceivably have had the same impact in color.
If you're interested in either Japanese cinema or Shakespeare, this should definitely be near the top of your list. As an entry-point to Kurosawa's catalog, you'd probably be better off with some less weighty fare.
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Dettagli
Botteghino
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 46.808 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 15.942 USD
- 28 lug 2002
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 59.886 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 50 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1