History Film / ThroneOfBlood

* SlidingScaleofFreeWillvsFate: Washizu is caught up in a prophecy that he can't avoid, from the moment he is given the title of Lord of Forest Castle, as well as in a cycle of KlingonPromotion a, given that Lord Tsuzuki had killed his previous lord to aquire his position. At the same time, he is given choices, whether or not to dispose of his trusted allies, and he picks the wrong decision each time, because he's so weak at the hands of his wife.

* OutDamnedSpot: Isuzu Yamada does a terrific mad scene.

* CompositeCharacter: Yoshiteru Miki is one of Banquo's son Fleance, and of Malcolm who becomes King of Scotland in the original play's final act.

Has recently been adapted as a play for the Ashland Shakespeare Festival.

* KabukiSounds much of the score is like this.

* EnforcedMethodActing: The arrows striking the wall beside Washizu in the final scene were fired by real archers placed just off-camera. ToshiroMifune's look of terror is not entirely feigned.

-->-- ''The Forest Spirit, to Washizu''

''Kumonosu Jō'' (''Spiderweb Castle''), distributed with the English title ''Throne of Blood'', is Creator/AkiraKurosawa's version of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''. Kurosawa fuses [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]]'s plot with elements from Noh theater, and sets the story at an unspecified time and place in [[JidaiGeki Sengoku-era Japan]]. The [[NoManOfWomanBorn Macduff]] subplot is left out,[[note]]Which is sort of funny, since the play was probably intended as a tribute to the newly-crowned [[TheHouseOfStuart James VI and I]]; Macduff's role is to reestablish the legitimate Scottish line to which the Stuart ancestors (at the time, they believed themselves to be descendants of Banquo) were loyal and whom they succeeded.[[/note]] leading to a different, but more thematic end for the Macbeth figure.

* BearerOfBadNews
* DrivenToSuicide

* LonelyAtTheTop
* MobileShrubbery
* OminousFog in spades.

* RainOfArrows

* SanitySlippage

''Kumonosu Jō'' (''Spiderweb Castle''), distributed with the English title ''Throne of Blood'', is Creator/AkiraKurosawa's version of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''. Kurosawa fuses [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]]'s plot with elements from Noh theater, and sets the story at an unspecified time and place in [[JidaiGeki Sengoku-era Japan]]. The [[NoManOfWomanBorn Macduff]] subplot is left out, leading to a different, but more thematic end for the Macbeth figure.

* RedRightHand: Even though it was the style of the time, Lady Asaji's shaved off and repaint eyebrows give her such an inhuman look. Also, keen-eyed viewers will notice that she never blinks throughout the entire film (a direction from Kurosawa).

* {{Tragedy}}
* UncannyValley: Lady Asaji never blinks throughout the entire film (a direction from Kurosawa).

* RedRightHand: Even though it was the style of the time, Lady Asaji's shaved off and repainted eyebrows give her such an inhuman look. Also, keen-eyed viewers will note that she never blinks throughout the entire film (a direction from Kurosawa).

* RedRightHand: Even though it was the style of the time, Lady Asaji's shaved off and repainted eyebrows give her such an inhuman look. Also, keen-eyed viewers will note that she never blinks throughout the entire film (a direction from Kurosawa).

* UncannyValley: Lady Asaji never blinks throughout the entire film (a direction from Kurosawa).

* OutDamnedSpot: Isuzu Yamada does a terrific mad scene. Also, she never blinks throughout the entire film (a direction from Kurosawa), which only adds to the crazy.

* SpearCarrier: A group of spearmen appear as a GreekChorus to mark {{ActBreak}}s.

''Kumonosu Jō'' (''Spiderweb Castle''), distributed with the English title ''Throne of Blood'', is AkiraKurosawa's version of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''. Kurosawa fuses {{Shakespeare}}'s plot with elements from Noh theater, and sets the story at an unspecified time and place in [[JidaiGeki Sengoku-era Japan]]. The [[NoManOfWomanBorn Macduff]] subplot is left out, leading to a different, but more thematic end for the Macbeth figure.

Has recently been adapted as a play for the Ashland Shakespeare Festival, YourMileageMayVary on it.

** Also Kurosawa had the actress who played Lady Asaji not blink during her scenes. At all. The effect is rather creepy.

* HenpeckedHusband: Washizu, possibly even more than {{Macbeth}}.

* LadyMacbeth: Asaji. (not surprising, since she's based on the TropeNamer)

* {{Narm}}: The play for the Oregon Shakespeare festival is a tad jarring at times. Considering numerous white actors are playing Japanese characters while Lady Asaji was played with a very thick Japanese accent. She goes back and forth between creepy crazy and narmy.

* UncannyValley: The prophetess in the forest comes straight out of this.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Washizu kills the assassin he sent to collect Miki's head.
** You're sure that isn't because he [[YouHaveFailedMe failed to kill Miki's son as well]]?