Ran

Features

Part 4: Challenging Convention

By PopMatters Staff

As cinema went completely commercial, abandoning art for artifice, true aesthetic acumen was hard to come by. Luckily, for the movies included herein, it was their difference, as well as their diversity, that helped them stand out from the rest of the high concept hackwork. [21 June 2007]

Reviews

Ran (1985/2000)

By Michael Abernethy

Kurosawa achieves an almost perfect fusion of storyteller and painter. [1 January 1995]