Ran
Reception

Ran (1985)

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External reception

8.5
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 278,960 votes
8.9/10 122,852 votes Synced 2026-07-21
8.2/10 153,925 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 8.6/10 277 votes Synced 2026-07-19
Critics 9.7/10 Synced 2026-07-19
Audience 9.5/10 Synced 2026-07-17
Critics 9.6/10 Synced 2026-07-17
8.0/10 1,906 votes Synced 2026-09-17

External reviews

Gene Siskel · Chicago Tribune 100.00/100.00

The physical scale of Ran is overwhelming. It's almost as if Kurosawa is saying to all the cassette buyers of America, in a play on Clint Eastwood`s phrase, "Go ahead, ruin your night"--wait to see my film on a small screen and cheat yourself out of what a movie can be.

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Desmond Ryan · Philadelphia Inquirer 100.00/100.00

The triumphant masterpiece of Akira Kurosawa's fertile twilight.

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Frank Lovece · TV Guide Magazine 100.00/100.00

Stands separate from the rest, in a pantheon, a true cinematic masterwork of sight, sound, intelligence, and most importantly--passion.

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Marc Savlov · Austin Chronicle 100.00/100.00

One of the 10 best films ever made, period.

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Staff (Not Credited) · Variety 100.00/100.00

It’s a dazzlingly successful addition to [Kurosawa's] distinguished career.

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Bob Graham · San Francisco Chronicle 100.00/100.00

In Ran, the horrors of life are transformed by art into beauty. It is finally so moving that the only appropriate response is silence.

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Kevin Thomas · Los Angeles Times 100.00/100.00

Ran, which translates as "chaos" or "turmoil," is at once brisk and vital, elegiac and contemplative, intimate and epic, tragic yet shot through with humor. It combines the energy of youth with the perspective of maturity. It encompasses all of human nature in its folly and grandeur, and it does so in images as beautiful and terrifying as any ever captured on film and in performances that are impeccable.

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Mike D'Angelo · The A.V. Club 100.00/100.00

Ran represents the color/widescreen zenith (qualification necessary due to Seven Samurai) of Kurosawa’s genius for spectacle.

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G. Allen Johnson · San Francisco Examiner 100.00/100.00

Kiarostami's genius is elusive. His films may be unknowable, but they are undeniably hypnotic, charismatic.

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