Ran - Criterion Collection

Ran - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa

Ran - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Akira Terao, Daisuke Ryu, Jinpachi Nezu, Mieko Harada, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Akira Kurosawa
Producer: Hisao Kurosawa
Producer: Katsumi Furukawa
Producer: Masato Hara
Writer: Hideo Oguni
Writer: Masato Ide
Writer: William Shakespeare
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 160 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Criterion Collection

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Movie Review: Great film now out of print
Summary: 5 Stars

Great film. Unfortunately, Criterion just announced this title as 'out of print' due to rights issues. Grab one while you can!

Summary of Ran - Criterion Collection

Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 11/22/2005
As critic Roger Ebert observed in his original review of Ran, this epic tragedy might have been attempted by a younger director, but only the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, who made the film at age 75, could bring the requisite experience and maturity to this stunning interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear. It's a film for the ages--one of the few genuine screen masterpieces--and arguably serves as an artistic summation of the great director's career. In this version of the Shakespeare tragedy, the king is a 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai as Lord Hidetora) who decides to retire and divide his kingdom evenly among his three sons. When one son defiantly objects out of loyalty to his father and warns of inevitable sibling rivalry, he is banished and the kingdom is awarded to his compliant siblings. The loyal son's fears are valid: a duplicitous power struggle ensues and the aging warlord witnesses a maelstrom of horrifying death and destruction. Although the film is slow to establish its story, it's clear that Kurosawa, who planned and painstakingly designed the production for 10 years before filming began, was charting a meticulous and tightly formalized dramatic strategy. As familial tensions rise and betrayal sends Lord Hidetora into the throes of escalating madness, Ran (the title is the Japanese character for "chaos" or "rebellion") reaches a fever pitch through epic battles and a fortress assault that is simply one of the most amazing sequences on film. --Jeff Shannon

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