Part 2 of my Baker's Dozen of top 10 Best & Most Essential Movies of all time.
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#6 RAN 1985 Directed by Akira Kurosawa
King Lear has always been considered the climax, the last great role an aging thespian can take on to display his matured craft as an actor. So Akira Kurosawa took it on, as an aging director.
Kurosawa's adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear is set in feudal Japan. An aging father splits his kingdom between three son in laws. Substituting pure cinema for Shakespeare's language, Kurosawa uses color, sound, camera angles and a near perfect aesthetic...