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Sun, Nov 27, 2005
Ran (Criterion Collection)
From: The Criterion Collection - Year: 1985 - Rated: Not Rated - Release Date: November 22, 2005 - Features: Anamorphic * Widescreen * Extras! * - Recommended! Perhaps, just as Hidetora, the Lear figure in Ran, had three sons, and Lear had three daughters, and Vito Corleone three sons, the DVD gods needed three releases of this magnificent achievement to get it right. The defining picture of Kurosawa's late period, Ran succeeds relentlessly on both the political and the domestic scales, as much a story of war as of a family coming undone from within. Criterion has finally favored us with a DVD release worthy of the movie's epic accomplishments - one of the great wrongs on DVD has been righted, and it's hard to think of a better release for this or any other year. Amazon Compare
Ran (Criterion Collection)