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Ran (1985) -- An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him.

Overview

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Director:
Akira Kurosawa
Writers:
Akira Kurosawa (screenplay) and
Hideo Oguni (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
1 June 1985 (Japan) more
Genre:
Action | Drama | War more
Plot:
An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 25 wins & 15 nominations more
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(16 articles)
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Pain and beauty are not mutually exclusive more (189 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Tatsuya Nakadai ... Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
Akira Terao ... Taro Takatora Ichimonji
Jinpachi Nezu ... Jiro Masatora Ichimonji
Daisuke Ryu ... Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Mieko Harada ... Lady Kaede
Yoshiko Miyazaki ... Lady Sue
Hisashi Igawa ... Shuri Kurogane
Peter ... Kyoami (as Pîtâ)
Masayuki Yui ... Tango Hirayama
Kazuo Kato ... Kageyu Ikoma
Norio Matsui ... Shumenosuke Ogura
Toshiya Ito ... Mondo Naganuma
Kenji Kodama ... Samon Shirane
Takashi Watanabe
Mansai Nomura ... Tsurumaru (as Takeshi Nomura)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ran (UK) (USA)
Revolt (International: English title)
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Runtime:
162 min
Country:
France | Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby (35 mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
Certification:
Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 (DVD rating) | Australia:M (TV rating) | Argentina:16 | Australia:PG | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Japan:R | Norway:16 (1985) | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | UK:12 (video re-rating) (2004) | UK:15 (original rating) | UK:15 (video rating) (1986) | USA:R | West Germany:12 | Canada:13+ (Quebec)
Filming Locations:
Aso, Kumamoto, Japan more

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Trivia:
Several hundred costumes were all created by hand, a process that took two years. more
Quotes:
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji: Does a traitor betray himself? more
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Referenced in Cinematographer Style (2006) more

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Is this movie based on a novel?
A Note Regarding Spoilers
Why was Sanburo's jest about the two hares considered offensive?
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35 out of 47 people found the following comment useful.
Pain and beauty are not mutually exclusive, 27 December 1998
Author: Mitchell Shron (shron@vh.net) from New York

Ran takes viewers to a place they would rather not explore on their own. In a world of cruelty, Kurasowa has shown how the moments within the horror can have beauty. Shakespeare wrote King Lear as a mirror on the human condition. We do not have to be kings and princesses to identify with the father's desire for the well being of his children, even if his own life was one of cruelty and pain. We see this theme throughout great literature and film. What Ran has done is to provide the viewer with many small moments within the pain to realize the beauty. Even the moment of epiphany for Hidetora, when his actions achieve his madness, is one of surpassing beauty. As the storm rages outside the small house of the prince he blinded, whose parents he killed, whose sister he forcibly married off, the simple sounds of the flute provide an intense focus on the here and now. It is at this moment when Hidetora recognizes that he himself sowed the seeds of his own destruction. There is no dialogue, no swashbuckling, just the terrible beauty of the music. As with many of Kurasowa's films, despite their epic scope, it is the small paint strokes that make up the master's canvas.

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