Ran

Kurosawa’s epic version of King Lear keeps many of the main themes of Shakespeare’s play, while turning the daughters into sons and transposing the action to 16th century Japan... "Ran" means chaos in Japanese, and Kurosawa explores the meaning of power, the insoluble conflict between what seems to be good and what is perceived as evil: for example, the great beauty that emerges from a battlefield where armies are slaughtered, or the sympathy for an avenger who lost her entire family. In short, Ran is a masterpiece not to be missed.