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Ran
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
R
1985
2h 40m
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In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
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Cast of Ran
Tatsuya Nakadai
Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
Akira Terao
Taro Takatora Ichimonji
Jinpachi Nezu
Jiro Masatora Ichimonji
Daisuke Ryū
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Mieko Harada
Lady Kaede
Yoshiko Miyazaki
Lady Sue
Mansai Nomura
Tsurumaru
Hisashi Igawa
Shuri Kurogane
Shinnosuke Ikehata
Kyoami
Masayuki Yui
Tango Hirayama
Kazuo Kato
Kageyu Ikoma
Norio Matsui
Shumenosuke Ogura
Toshiya Ito
Mondo Naganuma
Heihachiro Suzuki
Fujimaki's General
Kenji Kodama
Samon Shirane
Haruko Tōgō
Kaede's lady in waiting
Reiko Nanjo
Hideota's concubine
Tokie Kanda
Sue's lady in waiting
Sawako Kochi
Hidetora's concubine
Kumeko Otowa
Sue's lady in waiting
Takeshi Katō
Koyota Hatakeyama
Jun Tazaki
Seiji Ayabe
Hitoshi Ueki
Nobuhiro Fujimaki
Takao Zushi
Yoshitaka Zushi
Tetsuo Yamashita
Akihiko Sugizaki
Masaaki Sasaki
Satoru Fukasaku
(uncredited)
Susumu Terajima
Foot soldier (uncredited)
Akira Kurosawa
Director / Writer
Hideo Oguni
Writer
William Shakespeare
Writer
Masato Ide
Writer
Masato Hara
Producer
Serge Silberman
Producer
Ran Ratings & Reviews
Rowan Krzysiak
January 6, 2025
Some of the scenes are truly remarkable to look at and comprehend. Enjoyable and memorable.
j.pete6
February 20, 2025
Beautifully shot, every scene is a painting. Kurosawa is a master of his art.
Los Angeles Times
Sergio Burstein
A level of spectacularity that continues to surprise to this day. [Full review in Spanish]
Washington Post
Paul Attanasio
Kurosawa may not be Shakespeare, but with images like these, he gets at something about the horror -- and hopelessness -- of being a man that is peculiarly his own.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
This is one of the year's major cinematic events. It's well worth leaving the house for, should that opportunity arise.
Village Voice
Simon Abrams
Ran remains gripping because it depicts not only the long-ago past, but also our hellish present.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Ran is one of the cinema's greatest works, a film of true tragic vision.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
One of the supreme cinematic achievements of the last quarter-century.
People Magazine
Peter Travers
The result is the year's best foreign film, an action epic to dwarf anything from Lucas or Spielberg.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
A film for the ages.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
Ultimately it is this mixture of the grand gesture and the fine touch, the big world and the small people who occupy it, that lingers with us long after Ran is over.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
By the time Kurosawa's camera comes to rest on the film's final, poignant image, a painting of the Buddha that one character had promised another would protect him from harm, the movie seemingly has accomplished the impossible: one-upping Shakespeare.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
There's probably more carnage in Ran than there is in Rambo and The Terminator combined, but the new film substitutes intelligence and emotion for mindlessness and emotionalism. You leave the theater awestruck, not dumbstruck.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
What could be more exciting than the prospect of one of the giants of world cinema, his career resuscitated, adapting Shakespeare's most modern play?
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
What's remarkable about Ran is that the drama enhances the spectacle the same way the spectacle bolsters the drama. Few other directors had Kurosawa's ability to convey the intimate as well as the epic, to handle stillness as well as violence.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
It is a film that already belongs to the ages.
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
For aficionados of the war movie, the western, and the period action epic, Ran is necessary viewing.
Variety
Variety Staff
At age 75, the director has made his most costly epic to date, and it's a dazzlingly successful addition to his distinguished career.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Akira Kurosawa's 1985 film is slightly marred by some too obvious straining toward masterpiece status, yet it's a stunning achievement in epic cinema.
The Hollywood Reporter
Glenn Abel
Kurosawa dares to edit Shakespeare's story lines, adding back stories and deleting major characters, but the motivations and emotions remain true.
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