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Ran

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ry� View All

Crew

Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay), Akira Kurosawa (Director), Hideo Oguni (Screenplay), William Shakespeare (Writer) View All

Release: Jun. 1st, 1985

Runtime: 2 hours, 42 minutes

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.

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Gatsby
This time Kurosawa is trying to show the realistic part of battles, where it's not just a reckless and heroic charge, but one with countless back and forths, lasing, stabbing from behind, and the dreadful sound of gunfire and men helplessly falling off horses to their death.

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Iroquois
I suspect that Ran won't overtake Seven Samurai as my favourite Kurosawa, but it certainly comes closer than any of his other films as it goes for a whole other kind of epic and succeeds admirably.

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Thief
For some reason, I never got around to it, and when I started diving into Kurosawa films as an adult, some people suggested for me to start with "lighter" films and leave Ran for later.

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