Throne of Blood - Robert N. Watson (BFI Film Classics) China Set in wartime Sicily

Set in wartime Sicily

as a brave 12-year-old boy fights off Vikings and a serpent god with his trusted cat as they venture to complete the famous 9th-century illuminated manuscript

He performs subservient duties as he waits longingly for a letter from the King which will allow him to leave for Buenos Aires - his boredom gives way to reveries

'The Manchurian Candidate' Director: John Frankenheimer (1962) also includes hour long documentary on the director

Throne of Blood - Robert N. Watson (BFI Film Classics) China Set in wartime Sicily'Throne of Blood' by Robert N. Watson A detailed scholarly account of Akira Kurosawa's influential film which transposes 'Macbeth' to feudal Japan. Watson examines the symbolic, cinematic and historical aspects of the film. He also looks at what the film has to say about the tension between individual aspiration and the broader social good.