Macbeth is a TV series.
Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth
 The film transposes Macbeth from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama

