Great Epic!

Rating: 10/10 (13 October 2008)

I have used the images of RAN to bring myself up from despair, found myself having an incredibly similar visions in my own dreams to scenes in the movie, and felt inspired in my own work, recalling that this movie was made and did find an audience.
Clearly it's not a film for everyone. I think it takes a level of maturity that is a small minority in the American audience. For though who do connect with it, even with only parts of it, it is a memorable jewel, and like real jewels, rare, precious and enjoyed most by a discerning viewer. It is one of the films that has made my life richer. Richer in the same sense as having a day in front of an original work by VanGogh or watching Eve Ensler herself doing "The Vagina Monologues." There is nothing like it and we should be grateful for it.
This is a monumental film as most Japanese films are.