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Ran (1985)

8.2 IMDb
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Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

Best Release

StudioCanal · 4K + Blu-ray

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Director

Akira Kurosawa

Genre

Action, Drama, History

Somebody saw Kurosawa on 35mm and now everyone wants the 4K. The StudioCanal transfer holds up, OrbitDvd had stock this week, and the conversation turned into a love letter to the castle siege sequence.

noted week of Mar 29 - Apr 4, 2026

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Mentioned: Ran 0 Best affordable version of RAN? 3 Ran out of shelf space… 15 Happy I ran into this at the swap. Love collecting old school Cartoons. 1 Watched Ran (1985) for the first time, on 35mm in theaters. Now I really need to own a 4K release of this masterpiece 48 Just clearing up the fact that Currently Unavailable does not equal Out of Print. Currently unavailable means that the stock they have has ran out, out of print means that the licensing has been taken away. 18

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