(Wednesday / March 17, 2010 / 11:30pm)

Master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s version of Shakespeare’s King Lear, that took ten years to arrive the screen, and was the most expensive film ever made in Japan, was successfully made and maybe even better than the previous versions, or can arguably be called the greatest adaptation about greed, betrayal, and disloyalty. It all ended in satisfaction and begun in a madness that progressed into conflicts, “Ran” (meaning ‘Chaos’) was the obsolete masterpiece with vigor and energy. “Ran” was also the film that propelled Kurosawa as one of the greatest orchestrator of staging epic battle scenes in films!