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Watch the trail­er for a new restora­tion of Aki­ra Kurosawa’s Ran

26 Feb 2016

Words by Anton Bitel

A restored 4k print of this clas­sic Japan­ese war movie is com­ing to cin­e­mas this April.

Often con­sid­ered one of the great screen adap­ta­tions of a Shake­speare play in the his­to­ry of cin­e­ma, Aki­ra Kurosawa’s Ran is return­ing to screens both big and small this April in a brand spank­ing new 4K restoration.

Tak­ing on the fam­i­ly melt­down at the core of ​‘King Lear’, in which an age­ing father is met by vio­lent defi­ance by his ungrate­ful and greedy sons, the film offers a new and inno­v­a­tive spin on this decep­tive­ly sim­ple mas­ter­work of dark, clas­si­cal dra­ma. Although it’s often best remem­bered for its incred­i­ble, vis­cer­al cli­mac­tic bat­tle sequence, it also is one of the great exam­ples of expres­sion­ist colour usage in film, with the grim swatch­es of blood red past­ed on the plush green landscape.

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Take a gan­der at this amaz­ing trail­er to get an idea of how the eye-pop­ping new print looks.

Ran is back in UK cin­e­mas on Fri­day 1 April and will be avail­able on DVD and Blu-ray from 2 May.

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