'Throne Of Blood'

Macbeth. With samurai.

This film stars Toshirō Mifune, who I had no real clue just how prolific he was as a Japanese actor. So prolific that he's not even Japanese as he was born in China (to Japanese parents) and never stepped foot on Japanese soil until he was 21, which oddly would've been in 1941 when he was drafted into the Japanese army. He would later star in the film 1941.

He was also considered for the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars and for Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid. Alas, he had to settled for his other 182 roles until his death at 77. One of which includes Kikuchiyo in Seven Samurai, one of my favorite film characters ever.

Anyway, in Throne of Blood, he portrays the evil Washizu, or Macbeth.

In his final scene, he is killed by an army of archers who fired hundreds of arrows at him as he darts on the second-story of a building. A fun movie fact: Those were real arrows being fired in order to capture Mifune's real fear. In getting shot with a real arrow.

Also, the castle in the film was real. The director thought of making a fake castle, but determined it too impractical. So they built bits of a real one. Practical!