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Ran (Kurosawa 1985) 608x320 H264
Ran (1985)
R | 2h 42min | Action, Drama, War | 1 June 1985 (Japan)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089881/
Rating: 8.3
An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones
turn against him.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Akira Kurosawa (screenplay), Hideo Oguni (screenplay) | 2 more credits »
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
File: MP4
File size: 832 MB
Duration: 2:42:42
Video: H.264/AVC 608 x 320
Audio: AAC 2-chan 96 Kbits
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, muxed (switchable); External SRT also incl.
NOTE: Please ignore the spurious second subtitles track.
Review by Jonathan Crow (Allmovie.com)
Overwhelming in scope and magnificent in visual style, Ran is less an
adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear than an amplification of its
themes of greed, betrayal, and honor. Though set during the turbulent
Muromachi period in Japan, the film achieves a surprising universality
by perfectly marrying style and content. Master director Akira Kurosawa
distilled the play and stripped it of its numerous lengthy speeches
(Kurosawa accused Shakespeare of being too wordy). In their stead, he
packed the film with images pregnant with resonance and visual poetry.
Deftly employing all of the techniques associated with his long career,
Kurosawa creates a powerful portrayal of a kingdom coming apart at the
seams through such techniques as dynamic, painterly compositions that
emphasize depth of field; striking, expressionistic color; and
brilliant sound design. In one scene, Kurosawa confronts the viewer
with a silent, dream-like montage of human brutality: concubines
committing ritual suicide, soldiers porcupined with arrows, spilling
blood, and grisly dismembered limbs. In that same scene, the ghost-like
Hidetora, Kurosawa's Lear, witnesses the armies of his two sons, one
bedecked in brilliant yellow, the other in equally vibrant red, clash
on the black slopes of Mount Fuji. Few films have imbued battle
sequences with such beauty and with such horror. Tatsuya Nakadai gives
perhaps the finest performance of his long career as the former
vainglorious tyrant who slowly fills with shame and regret as his world
comes crashing down, while Mieko Harada is flawlessly ruthless as the
revenge seeking Lady Kaede. A brilliant cinematic feast ten years in
the making, Ran proved to be the last masterwork by one of the greatest
filmmakers.
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