マクベス (Macbeth)

Throne of Blood is a japanese  movie  by Akira Kurosawa,  where  they tell the story of  Washizu,  a man  that  won a   battle  in the middle of the war, and he wons also, the respect from  Tsuzuki, his lord. Just after this,  in his way home,  he   found  a   man that  started to  say everything that will happen   to him, just like a profecy, and when  he arrives home, his  wife told him that  he should   look forward  acomplish these profecies.

 I've  heard something like this before, in  another  place...  Well,  ladies and gentlemen,  this story is   Kurosawa's  version of Shakespeare's "Macbeth", where the  main  character  is part of the  army   and  he won   the most difficult  fight, and because of this,  he won the respect and  honor given by the  Lord,  but also he  won  the posibility  to  be the  next  in the throne. Just after these news were given to him,  he   walks  home and  in  his way home,   he finds somebody  that will tell him  his future. The news were heard  by his wife, who would  make him to  do bad things so  he  gets all the power. 

In this case, the  most notorious  difference would  be  the place where the story is placed,  because in one it is  Scotland, and  the other one  is  in Japan;  and the  years in which they are placed, because Macbteh is placed  during 1500, and  Throne of Blood is placed   aproximately  in the 1180, while the Tempei wars were  taking place;another  main difference would  be  the  name of the characters, based  in   what does the  culture and  what does the story  say.  Also,  one  of the most notorious  characteristic so far would  be that  the witches  become only one, and  it is a man , the most creepiest man I've ever seen,  because I imagined  the witches as  very active people  making  bad thing  in the forest while they talk to  Macbeth, but in this case,  the  spirit just  stays  sitted doing some  thread and looking to  anywhere.

Also, another notorious   thing   as a difference,  would be  the way Asaji-dono convince  Washizu, because in the book, Lady Macbeth is a strong woman  who  looks forward   the power, and  she   talks to her husband   in a strong and hard way,  showing that she "wears the pants" in the relationship", but   Asaji-dono is completelly  different, because, she is as sweet as a candy, because  even thought that  she  tries to be as bad a Lady Macbeth,  her culture puts the woman in  the lowest  level, and they cannot even  say anything, but she, with her sweet voice,  convinces  Washizu  to do whatever she wants.


 In this case, I think that  Kurosawa tried to empasize the  power of the man, and also, the power of  the words, because   in this case, with  fewer words,  they said what  Shakespeare  wrote, and wih the same  force  that the words have; also  he tried  to emphazise that they are different, but at some point, the mesaage and the main purpose of  it. In my opinion, I liked the way  we   notice the different perspectives  that  each of us gives to the same  play, and I think that  the result would be the same if each of us  played the  play   using the same   things, such as   the background and  other characters.