Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985) | 40th Anniversary screening

Ran
(Akira Kurosawa, 1985, 162 min, France/Japan, Japanese with English subtitles, DCP)

“Spectacular! Among the most thrilling movie experiences a viewer can have!” – Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times 

“★★★★★! Critics' pick! Kurosawa's magisterial epic demands viewing on the big screen!” – Time Out New York

“Kurosawa’s late-period masterpiece, transposing King Lear to period Japan, is one of the most exquisite spectacles ever made, a color-coordinated epic tragedy of carnage and betrayal—passionate, somber, and profound.” – New York Magazine

“A tragedy fed by Shakespeare, Noh, and the samurai epic… a film that shows human brutality, warfare, and suffering as if from the eye of a dispassionate God, seated far above the world’s terror…a great metaphor of the apocalypse, a world in flames whose chaos is made strangely beautiful.” – Michael Wilmington

"They don't make them like Akira Kurosawa's magisterial Ran anymore, but the truth is, they didn't really make them like this regal epic back then either." – Kenneth Turan, LA Times

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