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Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century ...Show synopsisRan is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three sons. In his dotage, he falls prey to the false flattery of his treacherous sons (Akira Terao and Jinpachi Nezu), while banishing his youngest son (Daisuke Ryu), the only member of the family who loves him enough to tell him the unvarnished truth. Thanks to his foolish pride, his domain collapses under its own weight as the sons battle each other over total control. Kurosawa's first film in five years, Ran had been in the planning stages for twice that long; Kurosawa had storyboarded the project with a series of vivid color paintings that have since been published in book form in England. The battle scenes are staged with such brutal vigor that it's hard to imagine that the director was 75 years old at the time. This 160-minute historical epic won several international awards, but it was not a hit in Japan, and it would be five more years before Kurosawa would be able to finance another picture. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviHide synopsis
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Description:Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko...Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada. Fine in fine packaging. Language: Japanese. Run time: 160 mins. Originally released: 1985. Like new; purchased new and watched once or twice.
Description:Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko...Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada. Very good in very good packaging. Language: Japanese. Run time: 160 mins. Aspect ratio: 1.85: 1. Originally released: 1985. From a private collection. Sub-Titles in English
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Description:BRAND NEW. For his 27th film, the 'sensei' of Japanese cinema,...BRAND NEW. 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 Attributes: AC-3, DOLBY, DUBBED: ENGLISH, DUBBED: FRENCH, DUBBED: SPANISH, ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: JAPANESE, SUBTITLE: FRENCH, SUBTITLE: SPANISH, WIDESCREEN, BLU-RAY.
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