Throne of Blood is Akira Kurusawa's adaptation of Macbeth re-imagined in Feudal Japan. In this scene, Washizu Taketok, played by the legendary Toshiro Mifuni and Yoshiaki Miki (Minoru Chiaki) encounter a witch who delivers a haunting poem and foretells the duo's fates.

"Strange is the world Why should men
Receive life in this world?
Men's lives are as meaningless
As the lives of insects The terrible folly
Of such suffering A man lives but
As briefly as a flower Destined all too soon
To decay into the stink of flesh
Humanity strives All its days
To sear its own flesh
In the flames of base desire
Exposing itself To Fate's Five Calamities
Heaping karma upon karma
All that awaits Man At the end
Of his travails Is the stench of rotting flesh"