An Excellent Movie

Rating: 9/10 (7 June 2008)

The story of Ran was based on "King Lear", and Akira Kurosawa adopted Japanese values and historical background in this film. Although we have to take more than two hours to watch "Ran", many people can probably enjoy that like me because of two reasons.
Firstly, the performances of actors and actresses were so wonderful. Especially, I was moved by Tatsuya Nakadai, who played Hidetora, and Mieko Harada, who played Kaede. Mr. Nakadai could express both mental agony and madness of his role. In addition, Ms.Harada's act was very terrible in the scene that Kaede frightened Jiro after Taro was killed. Finally, the film sets were excellent such as many kinds of weapons and castles. By the sets, the scenes of the battle and a castle,which burned fiercely, were impressive.
Thus, I would like to recommend "Ran" to the people, who like to watch movies!!