Unlike Anything I've Ever Seen

Rating: 10/10 (3 December 2000)

"Ran" is just a great movie . . . strictly from a visual standpoint, it has to be one of the most striking and mesmerising films I've ever watched, and that's on a crummy 19" color TV!! How I wished I had seen this in the theatre when it came out in 1985 . . . . The soundtrack is also excellent.
Kurasawa's unflinching presentation of this tragic tale and, in a larger context, the human condition, will affect you for days after you've seen it. . . . a very powerful movie.