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&quot;Ran&quot; is Japenese director Akira Kurosawa&#039;s 1985 adaptation of the Shakespearean classic &quot;King Lear&quot; set in feudal Japan. The film will screen at The Cinefamily this Sunday. (The Criterion Collection)

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Out of Focus: Kurosawa&#039;s &#039;Ran&#039; a beautiful take on &#039;King Lear&#039; - Daily Bruin

Out of Focus: Kurosawa&#8217;s &#8216;Ran&#8217; a beautiful take on &#8216;King Lear&#8217;

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Blood stains the rolling hills of the Japanese countryside. Arrows fly through the air as warriors in phalanx formations march across the plains. In Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran,” these images are beautified – we see poetry in the bloodshed, poetry in war.

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Out of Focus: Kurosawa’s ‘Ran’ a beautiful take on ‘King Lear’

By Ian Colvin

May 6, 2014 12:08 a.m.