Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Ran (1985)

Director:   Akira Kurosawa
Writers:    Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide
Language: Japanese
Set in feudal Japan, an elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him.

The story is based on legends of the daimyo Mori Motonari and the Shakespearean tragedy 'King Lear'. The word 'Ran' in Japanese mean chaos. It is filmed in a soap operatic way with 'Big Fuck Off' battle sequences that uses none of the CGI shit that we are used to. At the time of making Ran was the most expensively made Japanese film.

Rating: 4.5/5

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