Screen/Society--"Ran" (Akira Kurosawa, 1985) | 40th Anniversary screening

"Ran"
(Akira Kurosawa, 1985, 162 min, France/Japan, Japanese with English subtitles, DCP)

"Spectacular! Among the most thrilling movie experiences a viewer can have!" - Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times

"★★★★★! Critics' pick! Kurosawa's magisterial epic demands viewing on the big screen!" - Time Out New York

"Kurosawa's late-period masterpiece, transposing King Lear to period Japan, is one of the most exquisite spectacles ever made, a color-coordinated epic tragedy of carnage and betrayal-passionate, somber, and profound." - New York Magazine

"A tragedy fed by Shakespeare, Noh, and the samurai epic... a film that shows human brutality, warfare, and suffering as if from the eye of a dispassionate God, seated far above the world's terror...a great metaphor of the apocalypse, a world in flames whose chaos is made strangely beautiful." - Michael Wilmington

"They don't make them like Akira Kurosawa's magisterial RAN anymore, but the truth is, they didn't really make them like this regal epic back then either." - Kenneth Turan, LA Times

View Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5_rAEEIYMw

Parking Info: https://artscenter.duke.edu/parking