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JAPANESE SHORT STORIES, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (224 pp.; Liveright; $4.95). Akutagawa, who committed suicide in 1927, is still considered the most Occidental, as well as one of the most influential, Japanese writers. His famed Rashomon was made into an unforgettable movie and later a Broadway play. In this new collection of ten stories, he is badly served by Translator Takashi Kojima, who has used almost every cliché in the English language. But even so, Akutagawa's combination of savagery and detachment can raise Western hackles and dampen Western brows...
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. Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa's grand, barbaric Japanization of Macbeth is probably the most original and vital attempt ever made to translate Shakespeare to the screen...
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...