Ran - 40th Anniversary Screening of Akira Kurosawa's Greatest Hit

RAN - 40th Anniversary screening (Requisite Cinema) / Japan & France / 1985 / Dir: Akira Kurosawa / 162 Min / Current Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96%

Akira Kurosawa’s Academy Award-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare’s "King Lear," Ran considers the disastrous consequences of Lord Hidetora Ichimonji’s (Tatsuya Nakadai) decision to split his kingdom among his three sons. 40th Anniversary.

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

"The most intimate of epics or the most epic of chamber pieces."
- L Magazine