Ran (1985) on Netflix
Hidetora Ichimonji, an elderly warlord, hands his lands to his sons Taro, Jiro and Saburo. Saburo questions the plan and is exiled. Taro's wife urges him to seize the clan.
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Plot summary
The daimyo Hidetora Ichimonji is old, and he settles his succession. Taro, his eldest, receives the First Castle and leadership of the Ichimonji clan, while his father keeps the title of Great Lord. Jiro and Saburo are given the Second and Third Castles and are to stand behind Taro. Saburo objects to his father's talk of the three brothers staying united, and Hidetora banishes him; the retainer Tango is exiled for defending Saburo. Taro's wife, Lady Kaede, presses her husband to take the whole clan.
Cast
- Norio Matsuias Shumenosuke Ogura
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ran (1985)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Hidetora's third castle was a real building Kurosawa built on the slopes of Mount Fuji; it was burned to the ground with no miniatures, and Tatsuya Nakadai had to do the scene where Hidetora flees the castle in one take.
- Akira Kurosawa's wife of 39 years died during the production of Ran; he halted filming for one day to mourn before resuming work.
- Composer Takemitsu resigned from the film after Kurosawa constantly sent him notes, which infuriated him; producer Masato Hara intervened, made peace and Takemitsu returned to Ran.
- The part of Hidetora was written with Toshiro Mifune in mind, but the role went to Tatsuya Nakadai, a Kurosawa veteran who had played Shingen and his double in Kagemusha.
- Kurosawa skipped Ran's premiere, angering many in the Japanese film industry, so it was not submitted as Japan's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and producer Serge Silberman's attempt to enter it as a French co-production failed.
- Kurosawa got the idea for Ran in the mid-1970s from a parable about the warlord Mōri Motonari, who was famous for having three loyal and talented sons; Kurosawa imagined what would have happened had they been bad.
- The 1,400 uniforms and suits of armor used for the extras, designed by Emi Wada and Kurosawa, were handmade by master tailors and took three years.
- Kurosawa filmed a scene that required an entire field to be sprayed gold, then cut it out of the final film during editing; the documentary A.K. shows the filming of the scene.
