Ran

Akira Kurosawa’s astonishing medieval epic draws on King Lear to observe the monumental chaos (‘ran’ in Japanese) unleashed when an ageing warlord hands over the reins to his warrior sons.
Completed when the director was 75 years old, the film was a decade in the making, a color-coordinated epic tragedy of carnage and betrayal. Raging battles are delineated with rare clarity while court intrigues are captured with an electrifying intimacy.
Ran has been restored based on a 4K scan of an original negative. The majority of the restoration work was done manually, frame by frame.
Restored Digital Copy