The Scottish Play becomes the Japanese masterpiece: Akira Kurosawa adapts Shakespeare’s Macbeth with Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada as the Washizus, a power-hungry couple who murder their way to being Lord and Lady of Spider’s Web Castle. Shakespeare had been banned in Japan during World War II, as was much foreign culture, but Kurosawa saw the idiocy of trying to restrict art by creating one of the greatest adaptations of the bard’s work. – Richard Whittaker
Aug. 8 & 10
