Howard Orr
26Dec11
Yeah, I think there may be a case for that.
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Toshi FUJWARA
30Apr12
on the trailer, the confrontation between lady kaede and kurogane is from a different camera than in the film. interesting.
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Murtaza Ali
7Jan12
Ran is probably cinema's greatest rendition of a Shakespearean Epic. Adapted by Akira Kurosawa from Shakespeare's King Lear, Ran undoubtedly features amongst the best works of the master auteur and completes his apotheosis. Ran is a testament to the true spirit of cinema. The full review is posted at: http://apotpourriofvestiges.blogspot.com/2012/01/ran-1985-kurosawas-visual-spectacle-and.html
Michael Convery
4Jan12
Great film, yet whenever it approaches a sense of something cosmic it retreats. It's also important to not consider this an adaptation of King Lear, but rather a great film with allusions to King Lear.
Howard Orr
26Dec11
The only film of Kurosawa's from "Red Beard" onwards that to me remotely holds up against the pre-1965 classics.
AdolfoMartins
28Oct11
First Kurosawa movie I saw in a cinema, I remeber being totally flabbergasted with the color, the acting, everything... The armies coming down the hills are absolutely wonderful.
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Christopher
11May11
The first time I watched this the scene in which you descend through the keep during the siege, samurai running to and fro, his wives killing themselves rather than face the dishonor of capture, then moving outside to the blood and mayhem made me physically ill, it was more than I'd felt for a film in a long time.
Tristan P. Teshigahara
7May11
Takemitsu, Nakadai, Saito are all part of this film, but something is off. I can't quite pinpoint or elucidate what it is.
Mike A.
4May11
I love the way Kurosawa balances large scale perspectives with tragic intimacy. He's a very masculine filmmaker, but he's honest about the humiliations and terrors that come with choosing macho behaviour- and it IS a choice, something this film stresses. He achieves a perfect, logical clarity of image without sacrificing passion and a sense of unruly life- no other director I know of achieves this balance so well.
Diego Gatto
5Apr11
Um épico sem precedentes! Sem dúvida um filme de guerra que não deixa nada a desejar para as produções européias que retratam guerras medievais! VIVA O SHOGUN!