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This screening of Ran will be presented as the 2015 4K DCP Restoration.

Akira Kurosawa loosely adapts Shakespeare's King Lear for his final samurai tour de force. After an extended period in the creative wilderness, Kurosawa returned with a film he had been slowly developing for years. A kaleidoscope of colour, action and high tragedy, Ran oversees the collapse of a kingdom as an elderly warlord causes familial and societal chaos through his division of his dominion between his three sons. The epic scale of the film illustrates clearly how this became, at the time, the most expensive Japanese film ever made.

PG | Not recommended for children under 15; may contain material which some children find confusing or upsetting