Donald Richie notes that one of the reasons why Macbeth appealed to Kurosawa was that he saw in it the opportunity to create a mixture of the two essential styles of Japanese film, that of the film that looked to the past, and that of the film that looked to the contemporary scene:
In Macbeth, Kurosawa saw a contemporary issue--a parallel between medieval Scotland and medieval Japan which illuminated c
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