Saturday, July 16, 2011

"Ran" (1985)



-impeccably shot and pristine direction

-breathtaking art direction and costume design

-Tatsuya Nakadai playing Lord Hidetora delivers an incredibly powerful performance that really tied the movie up

-the locations for the palaces and ruins were eye candy making this one of the most visually dazzling films of all time

-for me, "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro" were still better, even "Rashomon" was. this was still visually his most impressive work




Academy Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1986 WonOscarBest Costume Design
Emi Wada
NominatedOscarBest Art Direction-Set Decoration
Yoshirô Muraki
Shinobu Muraki
Best Cinematography
Takao Saitô
Shôji Ueda
Asakazu Nakai
Best Director
Akira Kurosawa

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