

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.















17 November 1936, Shenyang, Occupied Manchuria

24 May 1929, Tokyo, Japan

1947, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan

12 November 1963, Tokyo, Japan

19 March 1955, Osaka, Japan

1 December 1947, Yamanashi, Japan

15 March 1920, Tokyo, Japan

15 April 1951, Tokyo, Japan


19 August 1910

18 May 1947, Kanagawa, Japan

11 December 1958, Kumamoto, Japan



August 08, 2016
One can never be short of things to look at while Kurasawa's Ran is in the world.
April 07, 2016
It's the intimacy of even the most gargantuan conflict that hits home in Kurosawa's masterful hands.
February 23, 2016
Ran remains gripping because it depicts not only the long-ago past, but also our hellish present.
April 03, 2016
A magisterial achievement.
April 23, 2014
One of the supreme cinematic achievements of the last quarter-century.
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 23, 2014
Ran is one of the cinema's greatest works, a film of true tragic vision.
May 20, 2016
Ran is high classical tragedy several times over.
March 29, 2016
Its true power is found in the small moments.
April 05, 2016
Akira Kurosawa's Ran is virtually in a class of its own.