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Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mieko Harada, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Ran |
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Based on William Shakespeare's "King Lear", RAN is a movie cowritten and directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1985.
An elderly lord, head of the Ichimonji family, decides to retire and to pass the power to Taro, the eldest of his three sons. He will however have to banish Saburo, the youngest one, who dared to speak the truth to him. Soon, the former lord is chased away from the castles of his sons and becomes mad when he understands that Taro is trying to kill him. But Taro is quickly murdered by his brother Jiro who's dreaming of conquering the neighbouring kingdoms. A few days later, four armies are facing each other on the prairie. Lord Ichimonji's former peaceful kingdom is nothing but a distant memory.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Ran |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- middle ages
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Political Plotlets:
- power struggle between good/bad govt factions
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Army
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
Age:
- 60's-90's
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
Hair color?
- white
Hair style
- longhair/girliemon (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
Prairie?
Yes
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- decapitated
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Japanese
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- None
Is this movie based on a
- play
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