This week in Seattle, Washington, the
Grand Illusion Cinema screens a towering portrait of political treachery, Akira Kurosawa’s 1957
Throne of Blood. Transposing
Macbeth to medieval Japan, this Shakespearean masterpiece gives Toshiro Mifune . . .
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