Toshiro Mifune is at his overacting best in Akira Kurosawa’s samurai twist on the Macbeth tale. I’m a big Kurosawa fan, and the source play is one of the few Shakespeare creations I genuinely enjoy. So I was pretty much set up from the outset to love this movie. That notwithstanding, even folks who aren’t fans should still be able to appreciate the artistry that went into adapting a feudal English classic into a feudal Japanese setting (not to mention the director’s usual flare for visuals and the lead actor’s usual flare for characters). Buy the disc
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