Throne of Blood - Robert N. Watson (BFI Film Classics) China as a brave 12-year-old boy

as a brave 12-year-old boy fights off Vikings and a serpent god with his trusted cat as they venture to complete the famous 9th-century illuminated manuscript

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Throne of Blood - Robert N. Watson (BFI Film Classics) China as a brave 12-year-old boy'Throne of Blood' by Robert N. Watson A detailed scholarly account of Akira Kurosawa's influential film which transposes 'Macbeth' to feudal Japan. Watson examines the symbolic, cinematic and historical aspects of the film. He also looks at what the film has to say about the tension between individual aspiration and the broader social good.