Ran.

National Review | September 12, 1986| | Copyright

ran

READERS HAVE written in asking why I didn't review Akira Kurosawa's Ran. Because I find it an almost total failure by a genius in his old age, and tearing it apart would be worse than taking candy from a baby--knocking an old man's crutch out of his hand. Kurosawa has made several masterpieces and a good many outstanding films in his long, productive life despite sad ingratitude from the ...

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