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yuiyoshida

(42,766 posts) Tue Mar 2, 2021, 12:51 AM Mar 2021

Ran: The most beautiful movie ever filmed

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Ran: The most beautiful movie ever filmed (Original Post) yuiyoshida Mar 2021 OP

After watching this beautiful description... Blue Dawn Mar 2021 #1

Akira Kurosawa was a cinema giant.. gohuskies Mar 2021 #2

I have to agree. ChazInAz Mar 2021 #3

Blue Dawn

(954 posts)

1. After watching this beautiful description...

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Tue Mar 2, 2021, 01:05 AM

Mar 2021

....I definitely want to watch this movie. I just took the time to look and found it free on Amazon Prime Videos.

Thank you, yuiyoshida.

gohuskies

(1,186 posts)

2. Akira Kurosawa was a cinema giant..

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Tue Mar 2, 2021, 03:06 AM

Mar 2021

And Ran was one of his most beautiful and finest works. Kagemusha is also beautifully filmed in color but Ran is a cut above. The scope of his films covered so many aspects in life besides jidaigeki samurai period films. Masterpieces like Ikiru, High and Low and Drunken Angel, are powerful statements on life and death in post-war Japan and film noir. He along with Ozu and Mizoguchi left a rich legacy of Japanese cinema. Thank God for Kurosawa-san.

ChazInAz

(2,787 posts)

3. I have to agree.

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Tue Mar 2, 2021, 09:07 AM

Mar 2021

I saw it for the first time several years ago, while playing Pocket, the Fool in King Lear. The contrast between Kurosawa's vision and Shakespeare's was wonderful, and equally valid!

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