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Ran
© Greenwich Film Productions - all rights reserved
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7 /10
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8.94 /10
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| Starring |
| Tatsuya Nakadai, Satoshi Terao, Jinpachi Nezu |
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Directed by: Akira Kurosawa  (AAN, LONDON CRITICS' CIRCLE AWARD - DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR)
Written by: Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide, based on Japanese legend and William Shakespeare's play King Lear
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| Released: |
1985 |
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DRAMA
FOREIGN
COSTUME
EPIC
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Japan |
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C |
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| Length: |
161 |
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A 16th century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai) abdicates from leadership of his clan, divides his property between his three sons, but finds that this arrangement has its problems.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Though ponderous at the outset and with acting that frequently strays into the melodramatic, this develops into a truly spectacular epic, with stunning use of colour and amazing battle scenes. Mieka Harada's performance as a daughter-in-law combining the worst aspects of Goneril, Reagan and Cruella De Vil, is riveting. Kurosawa was at his best when directing another work of Shakespeare, Throne of Blood (1957), here - at the age of 75 - he is very much in tune with Lear's disappointments and frustrations; Ran is his last great film. It won an Academy Award for Emi Wada's gorgeous costumes, and nominations for cinematography (Takao Saito) and art direction (Yoshiro Muraki, Shinobu Muraki).
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