Epinions Recent Reviews for mvie mu-1017155

mvie mu-1017155: Movie Review: Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985)

Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:54:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author andaryl - There are few more prolific and masterful directors in the history of cinema than Japan’s Akira Kurosawa. But while most of his legacy was built around the 1950’s and early 60’s, subsequent years would be something of a struggle for him...

mvie mu-1017155: I Am Lost... Such is The Human Condition... in Kurosawa's Chaotic Re-Telling of King Lear

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:27:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author thevoid99 - Throughout the late 1940s and to the mid-1960s, there was no director who was as revered as Japan's Akira Kurosawa. Many of the films he made in that time were often considered seminal not just to filmmakers but were often considered landmark films...

mvie mu-1017155: Artful chaos

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 23:25:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DavidMac - It seems as if many famous directors experience a sway in their careers only to be followed by another upswing which brings them up to prominence once again. Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was one of those guys. He made many famous films during the...

mvie mu-1017155: Epic Cinematography, Epic Storytelling, Epic Moviemaking!

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:27:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author opinion1977 - The master of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa presents his most epic and likely his best film in a worthy adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, set in feudal Japan. Epic landscapes and grand battles unfold as Lord Hidetora's kingdom is split between...

mvie mu-1017155: RAN-Don't Walk-OK that was stupid, but the sweeping Japanese re-telling of King Lear is not

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:25:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tiger62x - I'm actually just a little emotionally drained right now, having just viewed Aikira Kurasowa's "Ran". All of that Shakespearean tragedy is about to give me a brain aneurysm, let me say it really makes an impact. This is the story of a house divided...

mvie mu-1017155: Ran - Kurosawa's boring take on King Lear

Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:18:16 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author phungus - I have always wanted to watch an Akira Kurosawa movie and decided to start with this one. It was supposed to be his dream project that he spent ten years storyboarding and preparing. This movie is his take on Shakespeare's King Lear and many people...

mvie mu-1017155: 'Men Prefer Sorrow Over Joy'; (Ran)

Sun, 2 Jan 2005 18:27:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author quipowerty - Akira Kurosawa directed this masterpiece {pronounced 'ron'} while still mourning his recently dead wife. He had been working on the script for the movie for years, but when his wife became ill and ultimately died, he hesitated no longer. He dedicated the...

mvie mu-1017155: The Theory of Chaos

Sat, 6 Mar 2004 01:12:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author metalluk - Akira Kurosawa’s 1985 epic, Ran, is an expansive and tragic masterpiece, well worth experiencing by any and all movie lovers. It is often viewed as Kurosawa’s supreme effort, which is a remarkable assertion considering that Kurosawa...

mvie mu-1017155: The Poetry of Three Arrows: Akira Kurosawa's "Ran"

Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:41:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author stargull -

Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece, the crowning gem in a career dedicated to the creation of crowning gems, is his 1985 epic, Ran. It is a film whose merits are difficult to communicate with words, for these mere units of language are unable to...

mvie mu-1017155: Kurosawa improves on Shakespeare?

Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:03:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Cassady - Although I caught this on VHS, a big screen (or at least

letterbox) is the only way to appreciate Akira Kurosawa's 1985

reinvention of Shakespeare's "King Lear" (a play I tried

desperately to read as a youngster and could...

mvie mu-1017155: King Lear in Japan

Mon, 9 Oct 2000 15:42:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jeffcoffy - This grand epic from the 75-year-old Japanese master Akira Kurosawa is one of his finest achievements. Crafted from Shakespeare's "King Lear," it concerns an aged warlord who wishes to divide his kingdom up between his three sons (instead of...

mvie mu-1017155: More than just an adaptation of Shakespeare.

Sat, 3 Jun 2000 23:49:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author O2_Debt - It has been said that the ending of Ran symbolizes the human condition for Kurosawa. In the ending the blind Tsurumaru nearly walks off a cliff, and while wobbling to regain his balance he drops an image of Buddha. The film ends with a long shot of the...

mvie mu-1017155: Ran - Kurosawa's Version of King Lear

Sun, 21 May 2000 19:01:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author amyrok - In this complex world we live in, the definition of love is often vague and far fetched. More often we hear sweet words of love from those who have little knowledge of what love is. Many poets and writers have spent a lifetime writing novels, poems and...

mvie mu-1017155: So Pretty

Fri, 21 Apr 2000 13:59:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author witchbabykmg - Akiro Kurosawa directs this adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear. He makes the daughters into sons, transplants the story to fuedal-era Japan, brings in a Lady Macbeth-style character as one of the warring sons' wives and bought stock in red paint...

mvie mu-1017155: Kurosawa's Masterpiece

Tue, 8 Feb 2000 19:26:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author RobVanDam - I personally think that Akira Kurosawa is one of the most influential directors in cinema in this century. His countless films such as Seven Samurai, and Throne of Blood influenced Americans and other countries so heavily, that Kurosawa's style was...

mvie mu-1017155: Ran (1985)

Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:01:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BrianKoller - In 1957, Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa borrowed from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" for his film "Throne of Blood". Nearly three decades later, Kurosawa returned to the setting of medieval Japanese armies at war, this time adapting plot...