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Throne of Blood
MEANRANK
85/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #148
- IMDb #368
- Rotten Tomatoes #136
- Letterboxd #158
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #347
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #270
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 75, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 96, everyone else 83.
See the most agreed on films →A fierce warrior is told a prophecy by a spirit that he will become the lord of a great fortress. Spurred on by his ambitious wife, he murders his lord to seize power, fulfilling the first part of the prophecy. His reign is then consumed by paranoia and bloodshed as he tries to prevent the rest of the prophecy, which foretells his own downfall, from coming true.
Details
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Based on
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Studio
- TOHO, Kurosawa Production
- Released
- 15 January 1957
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- NR
- Box office
- $13.4K
- Awards
- 5 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 6 →5 wins from 6 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Venice Film Festival 1957 | Golden Lion | Akira Kurosawa | Nominee |
| Blue Ribbon Awards 1957 | Technology Award | Yoshirō Muraki | Winner |
| Kinema Junpo Awards 1957 | Best Actress | Isuzu Yamada | Winner |
| Mainichi Film Awards 1957 | Best Actor | Toshiro Mifune | Winner |
| Mainichi Film Awards 1957 | Best Art Direction | Yoshirō Muraki | Winner |
| Visual Technology Awards 1957 | Art | Yoshirō Muraki | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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6 awards — Throne of Blood
×| Golden Lion | Akira Kurosawa | Nominee |
| Best Actor | Toshiro Mifune | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | Yoshirō Muraki | Winner |
| Technology Award | Yoshirō Muraki | Winner |
| Best Actress | Isuzu Yamada | Winner |
| Art | Yoshirō Muraki | Winner |