Kurosawa's "Ran"...

[Davis_X_Machina]

....or <I>The Godfather if English is necessary...

[Um_Yeah]

1. um was this supposed to go on the other thread

??

[GOPisEvil]

2. Kurosawa's "Yojimbo"

...or "A Fist Full of Dollars", if you prefer Clint Eastwood to Toshiro Mifune. :-)

[pnorman]

3. Shakespeare's King Lear

was Kurosawa's inspiration for that film.
http://www.culturevulture.net/Movies2/Ran.htm
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/attenborough/487/ran.html

I just did a web search to make sure my memory was correct, and I'm going to print out and study a few pages and view it once more. I can see that I missed an awful lot the first time around.

The word "Ran" means "disorder, riot, rebellion".

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

4. Shakespeare's King Lear...

... in Kurosawa's unique adaptation/version. I remember renting the VHS tape of it way back in 1985 or 1986. The experience is still vividly in my mind, the scenery and action is astounding. I heartily endorse this film and give it a "thumbs up"!

More info for the curious here:

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Director Akira Kurosawa perceives Ran as his best film, an appraisal that many Japanese and Western film critics believe entirely justified. Running at over two hours and fourty minutes, its epic sweep, haunting score, and visual majesty rank among the greatest of all film accomplishments.

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<http://people.cornell.edu/pages/rr10/ran.html>