Akira Kurosawa"s savage, free-flowing adaptation of Shakespeare"s Macbeth plunges viewers into an eerie, fog-shrouded world of madness and obsession. International star Toshiro Mifune gives one of his finest performances as the proud warrior who is destroyed by his wife"s murderous greed and his self-consuming ambition. Set in medieval Japan during a period of feudal conflict, Kurosawa"s brilliantly staged classic bristles with energy from its first frenzied battle to its brutal climax.