TEHRAN-The Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran will screen the 1957 Japanese film Throne of Blood co-written, produced, modified, and directed by Akira Kurosawa on Monday.Set for evaluating at 5 p.m.
at the Nasseri Hall, the movie will be examined in a session in the existence of director and film critic Nahid Hassanzadeh, Mehr reported.The film transposes the plot of English dramatist William Shakespeares play Macbeth (1606) from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama.
The movie stars Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada in the lead functions, designed on the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.As with the play, the movie informs the story of a warrior who assassinates his sovereign at the advising of his enthusiastic spouse.
Kurosawa was a fan of the play and planned to make his own adaptation for several years, delaying it after discovering of Orson Welles Macbeth (1948 ).
Amongst his modifications was the ending, which required archers to shoot arrows around Mifune.
The film was shot around Mount Fuji and Izu Peninsula.
With a budget of US$ 350,000, the movie was one of the most pricey movies ever made in Japan at the time of its release.Despite the change in setting and language and numerous imaginative liberties, Throne of Blood is frequently considered one of the very best film adaptations of the classic play, and has actually received much important appreciation.
The movie won two Mainichi Film Awards, consisting of Best Actor for Toshiro Mifune.Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was a Japanese filmmaker who created 30 films of his own in addition to periodically directing and writing for others in a career covering 7 decades.
He is commonly regarded as one of the greatest and most prominent filmmakers in the history of movie theater.
Kurosawa displayed a bold, dynamic style highly affected by Western movie theater yet distinct from it.
He was involved with all elements of movie production.Kurosawas extremely regarded films consist of Rashomon (1950 ), Ikiru (1952 ), Seven Samurai (1954 ), The Hidden Fortress (1958 ), Yojimbo (1961 ), High and Low (1963 ), Red Beard (1965 ), Kagemusha (1980 ), and Ran (1985 ).
In 1990, he accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Posthumously, he was named Asian of the Century in the Arts, Literature, and Culture category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited there as being among the 5 people who a lot of prominently contributed to the enhancement of Asia in the 20th century.SS/