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Arguably the best Shakespeare adaptation ever put onscreen. Akira Kurosawa couldn’t rely on the Bard’s iambs when transposing Macbeth to feudal Japan, but he created visuals of competing richness—blanketing mists, lunar plains, tangled thickets, a Noh witch, flights of fateful arrows. Toshiro Mifune’s intensity embodies the usurper king’s paranoia and rising panic. -Lee Gardner

1957 Akira Kurosawa 1.37:1 B&W DCP 109 min. In Japanese with subtitles.