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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>DVD Review <font size="4"><br><i>Throne of Blood</i></font> <br>by Derek Hill</font> <p>By the time that director Akira Kurosawa was ready to helm his long-delayed adaptation of Shakespeare's play <i>Macbeth</i> (he had first wanted to make the picture in the late 1940s but held off due to Orson Welles's own production), it had been two years since his epic <i>Seven Samurai</i> (1954) had been released to popular and critical success and a year since his cautionary anti-nuclear film, <i>Record of a Living Being</i> (1955), had met with critical and popular indifference (and in fact was not screened in the United States until 1963). <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>