With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa re-imagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for... [read more]
RAN 25th Anniversary! (1:00), 4:45, 8:00
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa re-imagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power. In Japanese with English subtitles | 1985 | 160 min | 35mm
