In the movie, made 12 years after the end of World War II, Kurosawa transposed “Macbeth” to the world of feudal Japan. His version of the story is, if anything, darker and more fatalistic than Shakespeare’s, with a circular structure that suggests that human violence is cyclical and unending.
"Ian Dury, who I used to know well, was a lovely man except when he'd a few drinks – which was every night. One night at the bar of the Royal Court, he slapped the caliper on his leg and said, 'You know how often I think about this? Every fucking day. Every fucking day.' That's true, in a way, fo
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