Word: demonicism
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THRONE OF BLOOD. The most impressive living master of cinema, Japan's Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon), has transformed Shakespeare's Macbeth into a noh play loud with the wrangle of martial metal, soft with the rustle of imminent demonic populations.
Throne of Blood. A barbarically splendid Japanization of Macbeth; both brutalized and energized by Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, the Elizabethan tragedy becomes a noh play of demonic majesty.
Throne of Blood. A barbarically splendid Japanization of Shakespeare's Macbeth; both brutalized and energized by Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, the Elizabethan tragedy becomes a noh play of demonic majesty.
The structure of the film is stark but never static; Kurosawa impels his drama with demonic drive. From its first frenzied episode of plunging stallions and roaring knights, the film hurtles doomward like a great black boulder flung from a catapult. The spectator scarcely has time to realize, as the...
''If you will give me a piece of your turkey.'' the demonic dandy announces, "I will give you my gold buttons." Macario refuses, runs deeper into the woods. But just as he opens his mouth to eat the bird, God appears, dressed in white robes. "Please...