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Ran
15

Presented by the Friends of Hyde Park

Why watch?

“One can hardly watch Ran without feeling a sense of prophecy fulfilled. The tragic results displayed in this film suggest we all need to discern more deeply exactly who we can trust to lead us.”

Wendy Cook,
Head of Cinema

Spectacularly bold, beautiful and breathtaking in equal measure, Kurosawa's Ran is a true masterpiece of cinema.

War • Action • Epic • Pioneering

Borrowing narrative elements from the legend of Mōri Motonari (a 16th century Japanese warlord) as well as the Shakespearean tragedy, Akira Kurosawa's Ran stars Tatsuya Nakadai as the vain, arrogant Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji, who at seventy decides to abdicate and divide his domain amongst his three sons, with catastrophic results.

The most expensive Japanese film ever produced on its original release in 1985, Ran is the product of a breathtaking artistic vision that works as an historical epic and Shakespearean adaptation as well as a bloody, action-packed war film with a silent central battle scene that must be seen to be believed.

We're delighted to be presenting this film on 35mm.