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32 out of 32 people found this review helpful.

Ran - Kurosawa's boring take on King Lear

Date of Review:  Mar 7, 2005
The Bottom Line: This is supposed to be a masterpiece?
Review: I have always wanted to watch an Akira Kurosawa movie and decided to start with this one. It was supposed to be his dream project that he spent ten years storyboarding and preparing. This movie is his take on Shakespeare's King Lear and many people...
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  3.0

by: phungus
Recommended to buy: No

Pros
Excellent costumes, sometimes beautiful...
Cons
Too long, very boring
 
83 out of 83 people found this review helpful.

Ran - Kurosawa's Version of King Lear

Date of Review:  May 21, 2000
Review: In this complex world we live in, the definition of love is often vague and far fetched. More often we hear sweet words of love from those who have little knowledge of what love is. Many poets and writers have spent a lifetime writing novels, poems...
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  5.0

by: amyrok
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
fantastic characters, plot, beautiful...
Cons
slow, tends to drag a little
 
10 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

Ran (1985)

Date of Review:  Sep 21, 1999
Review: In 1957, Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa borrowed from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" for his film "Throne of Blood". Nearly three decades later, Kurosawa returned to the setting of medieval Japanese armies at war, this time adapting plot elements from...
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  5.0

by: BrianKoller
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
cinematography, direction, script, story
Cons
immortal horses, tragedy
 
24 out of 24 people found this review helpful.

any color you like

Date of Review:  Oct 25, 2003
The Bottom Line: A visual masterpiece that combines the humanity of "Ikiru" with the grandeur of "Seven Samurai."
Review: "Ran" is a 1985 Japanese adaptation of "King Lear" (i.e., Shakespeare meets "Seven Samurai"). A knowledge of Shakespeare's "King Lear" enriches the experience, but even those unfamiliar with it will appreciate Akira Kurosawa's final great epic.
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  5.0

by: spus025
Recommended to buy: Yes

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If Kurosawa adapted all of...
Cons
The excessive amount of blood may...
 
10 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

Kurosawa improves on Shakespeare?

Date of Review:  Nov 20, 2000
Review: Although I caught this on VHS, a big screen (or at least
letterbox) is the only way to appreciate Akira Kurosawa's 1985
reinvention of Shakespeare's "King Lear" (a play I tried
desperately to read as a youngster and could comprehend...
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  5.0

by: Cassady
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Visuals, emotion, morality, action,...
Cons
On the long side. You'll miss a lot in...
 
15 out of 15 people found this review helpful.

King Lear in Japan

Date of Review:  Oct 9, 2000
Review: This grand epic from the 75-year-old Japanese master Akira Kurosawa is one of his finest achievements. Crafted from Shakespeare's "King Lear," it concerns an aged warlord who wishes to divide his kingdom up between his three sons (instead of...
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  5.0

by: jeffcoffy
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
beautifully filmed, not a wasted shot...
Cons
may be too long or formal for some
 
11 out of 11 people found this review helpful.

So Pretty

Date of Review:  Apr 21, 2000
Review: Akiro Kurosawa directs this adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear. He makes the daughters into sons, transplants the story to fuedal-era Japan, brings in a Lady Macbeth-style character as one of the warring sons' wives and bought stock in red paint...
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  4.0

by: witchbabykmg
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
beautiful cinematography, an...
Cons
subtitled (if that kind of thing...
 
31 out of 31 people found this review helpful.

A Colorful Noh King Lear, the culmination of Akira Kurosawa cinema

Date of Review:  Dec 30, 2009
The Bottom Line: Great cinema, not for the faint-of-heart
Review: For me the greatest film director ever was Akira Kurosawa. After a series of epoch-making films during the 1950s (including, Rashomôn, Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Throne of Blood), Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune parted after the long-extended shooting...
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  5.0

by: Stephen_Murray
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Nakadai is as awesome as the sets,...
Cons
bleaker even than its source,...
 

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