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THRONE OF BLOOD – Masaru Sato
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Original Review by Craig Lysy
Upon finishing his last film, I Live in Fear in 1955, renowned director Akira Kurosawa began to conceive of his next project and decided that he would retell William Shakespeare’s famous 1606 play Macbeth from a Japanese cultural perspective. To that end, he sought to impart native Japanese cultural sensibilities by embracing Noh, a classical form of Japanese dance-drama performed since the 14th century. Noh utilizes masks, costumes, and stage props to support performances in which emotions are expressed through stylized gestures and masks that symbolize ghosts, women, deities, and demons. Noh also espouses the ancient Buddhist doctrine of impermanence and the concept of a soul denied salvation and condemned to wander the mortal world, a theme reflected in Washizu’s fate. Read more…
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