Japanese movie review: Ran

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Recently we watched a Japanese movie “Ran” by the director of another very famous movie, Seven Samurai. Or I should say "read " the movie as we watched it with help of the English subtitles. It was a very, very long movie but quite mesmerizing. It is an adaptation of Shakespeare ’s play King Lear with an old Japanese warlord, his two greedy, ungrateful sons, a court fool and the youngest son that had been banished for his brutal honesty. The dialogues and the acting were excellent and so were the battle scenes. I would recommend it if you like classic Japanese movies and have about 3 hours to spare. But it’s really worth it.