8 Best Reimagined Shakespeare Movies

Iconic director Akira Kurosawa was a professed Shakespeare fan and has adapted more than one of his plays into a film (more on that later), Throne of Blood takes one of Shakespeare's most prolific tragedies Macbeth and recreates it in a Feudal Japan setting.

With a fantastic leading performance from an always intense Toshiro Mifune who was a long time collaborator of Kurosawa's, we see Mifune descend into the depths of madness as Macbeth surrogate Lord Washizu.

After Washizu encounters a spirit in the forest who makes a prophecy that he will one day be the Great Lord of the region, greed and betrayal takes over his mind and that of his scheming wife as they plot to overthrow those that they had previously been loyal to.

Kurosawa adapts Macbeth with a keen eye and the film is most remembered for the exceptional final sequence in which the insane Washizu faces his consequences in an extremely graphic way.