Ran

The one movie that this reminds me most of isn’t Kagemusha or Throne of Blood or any other film by Akira Kurosawa. No, the movie Ran most reminds me of is Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman. Both films feel like culminations of careers, two master filmmakers putting everything they’d learned about the craft of filmmaking into a single, epic film. Sure, Bergman’s film didn’t involve massive battles between armies, but it was epic in its own, smaller way, a saga. Kurosawa, perhaps playfully...