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Akira Kurosawa
Ran 2 January 05
Section: kurosawa
Categories: Film / dvd
As the battle scenes increase, red paint for blood covers walls, floors, costumes and skin. The emblematic colors of the three brothers contending for power were primary red, yellow and blue. The film was shot in summer fields and mountains of mostly pastel greens, many transition shots between scenes were of the sky with powerful, vertical cloud formations.
This is such a visually stunning film, based on Shakespeare’s King Lear, that I first felt like putting it in my painting section instead of the Kurosawa section. Kurosawa did in fact study to be a painter before turning to cinema.
Title: Ran
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Hisashi Igawa, Masuyuki Yui, Kazuo Kato, Norio Matsui_
Writing credits: Masato Ide, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
Based on: King Lear by William Shakespeare
Year: 1985
- Title: Ran