Trailer: Akira Kurosawa's Ran

I dunno. I recall an interview Kurosawa gave around the time of the release of Kagemusha, in which he said he was trying to raise money for a film based on King Lear. Kurosawa was certainly very familiar with Shakespeare's work. I doubt very much he only realized later that Ran just happened to resemble KL in plot and theme.

Ran is King Lear. That was the intention of Kurosawa.

Tell that to osakagal08x.

Where was this amaing movie filmed?

This was some of the interesting scenes in the movie but this movie got many boring moments. The end of the movie was just a lot of horses being moved around.

It's Shakespear... it's supposed to be boring... King Lear I believe... many battles at one time were just for show... you can see it in African "staging"... then combat ensued until "acceptable losses" were produced...

A masterwork. Use of color and landscape that utterly shames the Peter Jacksons and Steven Spielbergs of the world.

the most graphic samurai flick. the battle scenes were amazing akira kurosawa did a fine job. the samurai armies in battle formation and the gory scenes of Samurai with dozens of arrows in them this is probably the most historicly correct samurai film do to it's athentic war scenes.

it's not shakespeare.. its Akira Kurosawa, it just happens to be based on King Lear... and I've read king lear and I must say, they have their major differences