Kurosawa's movie, Throne of blood can be easily compared with William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. This is thanks to the plots which are very similar. Also the characters are mostly the same, and have the same functions.
Otherwise, it has some clear differences, easy to analyze and discuss, such as the differences between Lady Macbeth and Asaji-dono. In the beginning of the movie –the only part of the movie we have yet seen– Asaji convinces Washizu to do as she wants in a whole different way then Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth was aggressive and used sexist insults in order to manipulate Macbeth. In the pther hand, Asaji does not do that. She just tries to convince him in other way, by telling Washizu, for example, that if he does not kill the Lord, somebody will kill him instead, because, that was the way humanity is.
There are even more differences between this two "stories", for example, the fact that Macduff's character is totally gone. This may and most probably destroy the heroic end of Macbeth.
The story in Throne of blood is given a totally different setting, because the character of Duncan, the Lord, also had to kill its predecessor in order to reach power. This gives the story a new sensation of ambition, like a cycle which never ends. This is used by Kurosawa in order to describe in a graphic manner ambition, widespread in humanity.
By reaching to this, gives us another similarity in the stories which is that both authors seek to "reveal" a critic to humankind.
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