Reel Reviews – Ran
Reel Review #49: “My Lord, we are undone, prepare to die.” Kurosawa’s late classic is a film to behold. Amazing cinematography and a classic story based on King Lear. You owe it to yourself to watch this film. “Man is born crying. When he has cried enough, he dies.”
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Michael-
Happy to see this pop up in my download list. Now your really talking about great cinema here one of the classics. Another useful tool you may want to mention is http://www.mrqe.com
Glad to see you made time to cast.
Man, I’m sorry to say this, but I couldn’t listen to this all the way through. I mean honestly, it was starting to hurt physically every time you said “Kagemusha”. No offense, but if you’re going to laud something as excellent and all that, could you at least make the effort to learn the name? The “g” in Japanese is /always/ a hard G. The way you said it would be “Kajemusha” which is technically not even valid Japanese. I understand you don’t know Japanese, but dude….
Tetsuo,
That is the risk I take every time I do one of these – particularly the Japanese films. I’d hate o think I mispronounce something, but I know that it happens. However, I do appreciate the correction. Thanks.
Great review, Michael. Made me go out and rent Ran. Excellet movie. On the other subject, could you elaborate more on the new podcasting setup you’re using?
Good review=. As a Japanese film buff, I winced at your pronounciations, but please don’t let that stop you from reviewing more Japanese films! I hope you expose your listeners to other great directors like Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri is amazing) and Takeshi Kitano.
Michael,
What an amazing piece of art. I picked up a rental last Friday night after listening to your podcast.
The plan was for my wife and I to listen to the podcast first and then watch the movie together. Problem was that one of our kiddos was feeling bad, and our plan got sidetracked. However, I did get to watch it after everyone went to sleep.
I really enjoyed the story telling and wow…how about Lady Kaede?!
This is one of those films that I need to watch 2 or 3 more times to really become immersed in it. I feel like I just went through the Louvre or Musee d’Orsey in 30 minutes and I need to truly go back and study all the hallways.
Thank you for the review!
Todd
Riveting! I wasn’t sure I was going to like this film at first, but wow. Lady Kaede takes the prize as the all time most monstrous villaness. I’ve never seen anything like her or this movie before.
Michael, awesome review on one of the greatest movies of all time. Im a huge Kurasawa fan and preach his filmmaking ways on my podcast Filmmaking Central! Way to go! Cheers, Dave