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Ran
1985 -
Japan /
France
- 160 min. -
Feature, Color
Director:
Akira Kurosawa
Cast:
Tatsuya Nakadai,
Jinpachi Nezu,
Daisuke Ryu,
Mieko Harada,
Yoshiko Miyazaki.
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- Lang.: Japanese
/ Sub. in English.
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Sinopsis
Ran is Japanese filmmaker
Akira Kurosawa's
reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's
King Lear.
The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya
Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally
among his three sons. In his dotage, he falls prey to the false flattery of
his treacherous sons (Akira
Terao and
Jinpachi Nezu), while banishing his youngest son (Daisuke
Ryu), the only member of the family who loves him enough to tell him the
unvarnished truth. Thanks to his foolish pride, his domain collapses under its
own weight as the sons battle each other over total control.
Kurosawa's
first film in five years,
Ran had been
in the planning stages for twice that long;
Kurosawa had
storyboarded the project with a series of vivid color paintings that have
since been published in book form in England. The battle scenes are staged
with such brutal vigor that it's hard to imagine that the director was 75
years old at the time. This 160-minute historical epic won several
international awards, but it was not a hit in Japan, and it would be five more
years before
Kurosawa would be able to finance another picture.
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