Ran

Ran, the jappanese movie.. its amazing!

have you seen it? what do you think?

its basically a better version of king lear set in the samurai era





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_%28film%29

I want to watch it. I have Yojimbo and Seven Samurai to watch first though. Yojimbo tomorrow..

just saw it today on sundance channel .. brilliant... the tragedy and betrayal.. and the amazing use of cinematography and color.. breathtaking

yes i have it on my pc in hd. too bad i cant figure out a way to run it. my dvd dont run hd movies

My favourite Japanese Director/Screenwriter of ALL TIME, Kurasawa was an absolute genius, shame he didn't live out his dream of dying on set. He'd still be going to this day if he wanted to .

When I was a kid my parents owned a video store in the 80's and Ran was the first movie we got that was letter boxed as well as subtitled. I remember, we couldn't give the movie away. Everyone who rented it returned it because A. they couldn't read fast enough, and B. Because there were boxes on the screen and they wanted to see the whole movie not a postage stamp. My, times have changed. I didn't understand the problems even then because I loved the movie. Still do.

Best movie EVAR.

Damn you guys cost me £10. I now feel compelled to buy Ran soon.

Did I say it's the BEST movie ever?

cant be stressed enough

I prefer Kagemusha and Ten to Chi

Originally Posted by Erwin Rommel

I prefer Kagemusha and Ten to Chi

HUm Kagemusha is quite good but i think Ran is better.

can someone explain to me why everyone in this movie has the same hairstlye of bald in the middle and long hair in the back of the head?

That is a lame question, anyway It is how japanese use their hair in midle ages. Its an èpic movie, After all.

yes i have it on my pc in hd. too bad i cant figure out a way to run it. my dvd dont run hd movies

If you have it on PC why do you need DVD ?? If you have Blu Ray dics then only with a Blu Ray Driver you can run it. If you have in PC you should be able to wacth. Use Media Player classic Home cinema for it if your windows media player don work. Classic as more codecs etc. You should install ffdshow as well. with that you can read anything. Practicaly. Also Matroska splitter or Haalia media splitter is very usefull for codec Avi ,and to make Subtitles to work.

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If you have it on PC why do you need DVD ?? If you have Blu Ray dics then only with a Blu Ray Driver you can run it. If you have in PC you should be able to wacth. Use Media Player classic Home cinema for it if your windows media player don work. Classic as more codecs etc. You should install ffdshow as well. with that you can read anything. Practicaly. Also Matroska splitter or Haalia media splitter is very usefull for codec Avi ,and to make Subtitles to work.[/QUOTE]

well because i dont like watch a movie while i sit. and my pc is in the living room. tv in the background,alot of light. my other family members interupting me. i cant

Saw it the other year (and Kagemusha).

Was something different as I recall.
Needs to see most films twice in order to remember them better though.
(I have bad memory overall)

Little known facts: in the end of Kagemusha (spoiler follows)

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

when the camera pans over the decimated army and especially the cavalry we see a number of horses lying on the ground. Each of these horses has been drugged and a pillow slipped under their head at the behest of animal rights group who threatened to hold the filming since lying down is not the natural sleeping position of the animals...

I think Ran was big but Kagemusha was huge.

Kage is good and Heaven and Earth

can someone explain to me why everyone in this movie has the same hairstlye of bald in the middle and long hair in the back of the head?

pretty sure that was the sytle unlike modern flicks where the actors have big beautiful rock star wigs and clean shaven faces.

Originally Posted by Armatus

pretty sure that was the sytle unlike modern flicks where the actors have big beautiful rock star wigs and clean shaven faces.

well im not against that or something but i sew some ancient japan portraits and the most of them have a long hair

You've never seen the shaved tops?