Throne of Blood1957
Both picked by Oscar Isaac in the Criterion Closet, and both directed by Akira Kurosawa
- Criterion Collection
- Spine №842
- Connections
- View Connections
Synopsis
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
