Ran
At the age of seventy, after years of consolidating his empire, the Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji decides to abdicate and divide his domain amongst his three sons, not knowng that the two corrupt ones will turn against him.
1947, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
18 May 1947, Kanagawa, Japan
11 December 1958, Kumamoto, Japan
24 May 1929, Tokyo, Japan
1 January 1928, Tokyo, Japan
July 8, 1915 in Tokyo, Japan
19 August 1910
25 June 1946, Osaka, Japan
17 November 1936, Shenyang, Occupied Manchuria
12 November 1963, Tokyo, Japan
20 January 1958, Kobe, Japan
14 February 1927, Tokyo, Japan
19 March 1955, Osaka, Japan
25 February 1927, Mie, Japan
6 September 1955, Saitama, Japan
13 December 1932, Tokyo, Japan
1 December 1947, Yamanashi, Japan
8 August 1952, Osaka, Japan
15 March 1920, Tokyo, Japan
8 October 1947, Shimane, Japan
15 April 1951, Tokyo, Japan
April 07, 2016
It's the intimacy of even the most gargantuan conflict that hits home in Kurosawa's masterful hands.
February 25, 2016
This is one of the year's major cinematic events. It's well worth leaving the house for, should that opportunity arise.
April 23, 2014
Less a director's return to form than an essay in solipsism and self-pity run amok.
April 05, 2016
Akira Kurosawa's Ran is virtually in a class of its own.
August 08, 2016
One can never be short of things to look at while Kurasawa's Ran is in the world.
March 29, 2016
Its true power is found in the small moments.
February 23, 2016
Ran remains gripping because it depicts not only the long-ago past, but also our hellish present.
May 20, 2016
Ran is high classical tragedy several times over.
April 23, 2014
One of the supreme cinematic achievements of the last quarter-century.
April 03, 2016
A magisterial achievement.
April 23, 2014
Ran is one of the cinema's greatest works, a film of true tragic vision.

