Ran

Director: Akira Kurosawa

1985 / 160min / DCP

While not Kurosawa’s final film, this towering 1985 epic feels something like a summation, in which the Japanese director once again—as in his Throne of Blood and The Bad Sleep Well—turned to Shakespeare for inspiration, crafting this magisterially bleak, balefully beautiful King Lear set in Sengoku-period Japan which features the legendary Tatsuya Nakadai as the aging warlord faced with choosing a successor, Mieko Harada as his vengeance-mad daughter-in-law, and drag star Shinnosuke Ikehata as his capering court jester. “A great, glorious achievement.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Special Chris Marker Double Bill screening on May 25th paired with Marker's documentary, A.K., filmed on the set of Ran. Please note: this screening will be General Admission with no reserved seating.

Part of Chris Marker's Le Dépays