Ran (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 16, 2010
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Lions Gate
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:
Rating: 5/5 --
Its true power is found in the small moments.
Full Review
Time Out
The film] still packs a punch 19 years after its original release.
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Rating: 5/5 --
Prepare your eyes to be gouged (this is a King Lear adaptation, after all).
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Times (UK)
...The film is visually magnificent. Kurosawa refined everything he learned about battle scenes in KAGEMUSHA and the earlier samurai epics...
Chicago Sun-Times
...A deft switch on Shakespeare's King Lear....[A] stirring epic about familial deceit...
USA Today
Kurosawa may not be Shakespeare, but with images like these, he gets at something about the horror -- and hopelessness -- of being a man that is peculiarly his own.
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Washington Post
Ranked #9 in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten DVDs Of The Year -- With his last great masterpiece, Akira Kurosawa accomplished the remarkable -- improving upon Shakespeare.
Entertainment Weekly
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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- UPC: 012236107798
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