Throne of Blood

When I sat down to watch Throne of Blood, I was very worried that I was going to feel bored, but my first exposure to Karosawa was a very positive one. I think the way the director plays the two traditional Japanese film/play styles against each other adds another element to the story line we are already getting from the original Shakespearean Macbeth. The traditional samurai acting was rapid speech, and sharp movements, which, to me, made the story move along faster in some parts and added a sense of urgency to the plot, reminding me that the Macbeth story really happens in just a couple days time. The samurai acting is very over-the-top and engaging, large movements, loud voices, and over-exaggerated facial expressions. The men in the story line were using this type of acting. Contrasting with the samurai acting style was the original Japanese stage acting style, noh, and its key elements are quiet voices, lack of any facial expressions and a sense of almost dreaminess. This style is seen in the two female roles, the witch/demon and the wife of the "Macbeth" character. The overlap of these two style really add in a trance-like or dream-like aspect to the movie. Specifically, in the woods with the demon and in the room with his wife, I started to wonder if maybe this was all in his head or not. The complete lack of emotion and decisions and support his wife offers, only to contradict her husband is almost like an internal turmoil that the Macbeth is facing with himself. Both the demon and the wife are clothed in nearly all-white, adding to the ghost-like effect that they may not really be there at all. I think this may have been the directors intention when he overlapped the two acting styles that do conflict so much.

My questions are:
1.) Do anyone else notice the dreamy, ghost-like quality the women had as well?
2.) Do you think there is any insinuation or connection between the forest in the movie that they describe as "labyrinthine", which contains pile of skeletons, and the actual Aokigahara (Suicide) Forest at the base of Mt. Fuji, which has been known since medieval times as a place of suicide, demons, and danger?