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Marlon James’s Adventures in Moviegoing

Marlon James on THRONE OF BLOOD

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  • Throne of Blood
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    Throne of Blood

    Throne of Blood

    Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1957 • Japan
    Starring Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki

    A vivid, visceral “Macbeth” adaptation, THRONE OF BLOOD, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan....

  • Marlon James on LE SAMOURAÏ
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    Marlon James on LE SAMOURAÏ

    Marlon James on LE SAMOURAÏ

  • Le samouraï
    1:45:09
    Le samouraï

    Le samouraï

    Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville • 1967 • France, Italy

    In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture--with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology--mav...

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