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YEOP!

26May12

"Such is the way of the world. Men live not for joy but for sorrow, not for peace but for suffering"

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LifeofFiction

15May12

King Lear never looked so good.

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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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Scottie Ferguson

26Apr12

Absolutely epic, on a scale few would attempt and even less would achieve.

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Christofer Pierson

23Apr12

Even better--more beautiful, sadder, deeper--than I remembered.

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Adrian Mendoza

17Apr12

Bloody hell!

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Stephen Prokow

24Feb12

The old man had brutally pale, sexy legs.

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Judicial Joe

20Feb12

Lady Kaede is one of the best characters in Japanese cinema.

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rrrno

5Feb12

Impresionante el trabajo de Kurosawa, que lejos quedo aquella época donde las súper producciones iban acompañadas de cine de buena calidad.

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Jesse Roy

4Feb12

An epic masterpiece.

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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

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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.

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Howard Orr

26Dec11

The only film of Kurosawa's from "Red Beard" onwards that to me remotely holds up against the pre-1965 classics.

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Gianni Naka Candellari

15Dec11

"Hidetora: I am lost... Kyoami: Such is the human condition."

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Ross Patterson

9Dec11

Almost flawless. Epic without being devoid of emotion.

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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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Ryan H.

7Oct11

Arguably Kurosawa's finest hour.

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Doctor Sodoma

23Sep11

Qué monstruo de película. Kurosawa nació para adaptar a Shakespeare.

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Gylfi Reynisson

23Aug11

Beautiful masterpiece. Saw it on Blue Ray, the experience was jaw-dropping.

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EddyNY

29Jul11

What can be said that has already been said? At end of the film, all one can say is nothing; words are not enough. All I can say is I hope I never meet someone like Lady Kaede.

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Julie Koh

9Jul11

Lady Kaede. Her eyebrows are the highest in history yet she's the one who surprises them all.

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monster

23May11

Masterpiece.

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Dave

20May11

Easily my favorite Kurosawa film...oh my, the use of colors.

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    DT

    17Jul11

    Have you seen Kagemusha? Its colour scheme is even more sumptuous than Ran's, and that's saying something.

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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.

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Jardun

7May11

Simply fascinating.

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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.

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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!