Dir: Akira Kurosawa | Japan | 1985 | 161 mins | Subtitled

Cast | Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Akira Kurosawa’s Oscar and BAFTA award-winning Ran, his astonishing, colour-soaked reimagining of King Lear as a jidaigeki epic.

Borrowing from Japanese legend as well as Shakespearean tragedy, Ran (‘chaos, turmoil or fury’ in Japanese) stars Tatsuya Nakadai as the vain, arrogant Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji, who at 70 abdicates and divides his domain amongst his three sons with catastrophic results. The most expensive Japanese film ever produced on its 1985 release, Kurosawa’s (Seven Samurai, Rashômon) spectacularly beautiful work is the product of a breathtaking artistic vision, with a silent central battle sequence that must be seen to be believed. 

“A film born of rare greatness… impossible to forget” ★★★★★ Empire

Fri 8 Aug

Thu 14 Aug

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