• Director(s)

    Akira Kurosawa

  • Production Year

    1957

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    109m

  • Cast

    Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada

Film

Throne Of Blood

moderate violence

The ambitions of a general and his wife lead to murder in this Japanese drama thriller. …

The ambitions of a general and his wife lead to murder in this Japanese drama thriller.

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violence
There is moderate violence when a man is repeatedly hit with arrows until he is struck in the neck. In another scene, a swordsman stabs an armoured soldier.
additional issues
There are undetailed verbal references to suicide. It is implied a soldier delivers a man's severed head to a general, but it is covered by a blanket. Scenes of supernatural threat include a man briefly being haunted by the man he murdered.

  • Director(s)

    Akira Kurosawa

  • Production Year

    1957

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    109m

  • Cast

    Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada

moderate violence, threat
Classified Date:
06/03/2020
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
BFI Films
violence
Scenes include stabbings with swords and spears, and a sequence in which a man is shot multiple times with arrows. There is brief sight of blood stains on a wall and on hands, and a bag is said to contain a man's head.
threat and horror
Ghostly figures appear in a haunted forest surrounded by skulls and bones.
moderate violence, threat
Classified Date:
06/03/2020
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
BFI Films
violence
Scenes include stabbings with swords and spears, and a sequence in which a man is shot multiple times with arrows. There is brief sight of blood stains on a wall and on hands, and a bag is said to contain a man's head.
threat and horror
Ghostly figures appear in a haunted forest surrounded by skulls and bones.
Contains infrequent moderate horror and violence
Classified Date:
18/12/2001
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
BFI (Collections)
Classified Date:
06/01/1958
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Curzon Film Dists Ltd
moderate violence
Classified Date:
28/02/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
BFI Video
violence
There is moderate violence when a man is repeatedly hit with arrows until he is struck in the neck. In another scene, a swordsman stabs an armoured soldier.
additional issues
There are undetailed verbal references to suicide. It is implied a soldier delivers a man's severed head to a general, but it is covered by a blanket. Scenes of supernatural threat include a man briefly being haunted by the man he murdered.
Classified Date:
17/09/1991
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Connoisseur Video

  • Classified date

    28/02/2025

  • Language

    Japanese