Ran
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 3, 2021
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu & Mieko Harada | |
Performer: | Yoshiko Miyazaki | |
Directed by | Akira Kurosawa | |
Screenwriting by | Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide & Akira Kurosawa | |
Composition by | Tôru Takemitsu | |
Produced by | Serge Silberman & Masato Hara | |
Director of Photography: | Takao Saito |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1985 -
Best Costume Design: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
96%
TOMATOMETER
...Brisk and vital, elegiac and contemplative, intimate and epic, tragic yet shot through with humor. It combines the energy of youth with the perspective of maturity...
Los Angeles Times
...A deft switch on Shakespeare's King Lear....[A] stirring epic about familial deceit...
USA Today
RAN represents the color/widescreen zenith of Kurosawa’s genius for spectacle...
A.V. Club
...Sweeping... -- Recommended
Premiere
...The film is visually magnificent. Kurosawa refined everything he learned about battle scenes in KAGEMUSHA and the earlier samurai epics...
Chicago Sun-Times
Transposing King Lear to feudal Japan, Akira Kurosawa delivers this visual feast of Shakespeare, No theater, and action epics.
Entertainment Weekly
5 stars out of 5 -- Intimate and epic, beautiful and savage, RAN glides between astonishing action sequences and forceful drama...
Total Film
Product Description:
For his 27th film, the "sensei" of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as "chaos" or "turmoil," is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide his empire among his three sons on the eve of his 70th birthday. However, Hidetora's youngest and most compassionate son, Saburo, defiantly objects to this hasty decision and is disowned by the proud, stubborn ruler. Once the two eldest sons take control of the empire, they quickly turn on their father and begin vying for total control over the land. As Hidetora is banished from his own kingdom in a bloody battle, he must confront the consequences of his violent, ruthless past. Ten years in the making, RAN represents the culmination of Kurosawa's career by revisiting his skill at adapting Shakespeare, as evidenced in THRONE OF BLOOD, and displaying the cinematic splendor of his other landmark films such as SEVEN SAMURAI and RASHOMON. With its magnificent costumes, breathtaking settings, and amazingly photographed battle sequences, the film is truly stunning. An epic on the grandest of scales, RAN is not only one of Kurosawa's finest films, it is a glorious masterpiece of Japanese cinema.
Keywords:
Action
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Big Battles
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Classic
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Family Interaction
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Medieval
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Betrayal
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Recommended
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Period Piece
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Orient
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Theatrical Release
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Japan
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Essential Cinema
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- Sales Rank: 53,289
- UPC: 887936850035
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