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Ran

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Directed by Akira Kurosawa

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons. From TMDB

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Ran is a 1985 action drama history film, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao and Jinpachi Nezu.

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  • TheGayGaston @thegaygaston.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 28, 2025

    Ran into oomfs in Paris — he wanted me to fuck him and film it 😈 Onlyfans.com/thegaygaston 🌈40% off today! 🌈

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  • ✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 7, 2026

    Ran into my ex husband and told him about my acceptance to Toronto Film School and he was like “Wow so you’re really doing it, huh?” YES I AM.

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  • Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 11, 2025

    It is with great sadness I inform you that the great Tatsuya Nakadai has died. You might remember me mentioning him frequently during Kurosawa Month when I reviewed every Kurosawa movie. Nakadai was the face of the director's later works, incl. my favorite "Ran." We will never see such talent again.

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  • Noah Oskow @noahoskow.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2025

    Lucas, Coppola, and Scorsese were all major supporters of Kurosawa during his long decades in exile from the Japanese studio system. As a result we got two of his greatest films: Kagemusha and Ran. Scorsese even cameos in Kurosawa's surreal film Dreams as Van Gogh.

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  • Kevidently @kevidently.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 4, 2025

    I saw someone legitimately proclaim that the spinning top at the end of Inception was because Christopher Nolan RAN OUT OF FILM and just left that in.

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  • Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2025

    Ran into a video that features a direct to video movie I worked on heavily back in the early 2010's. I never really got to see the final results... hoo-boy...

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  • Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2025

    If you like films, I can recommend the Sky Arts series of Classic Movies. I've just watched the programme on Kurosawa's Ran. Very good on a superb film.

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  • Jacob Phillips @thatjacobphillips.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2025

    I saw Ran for the first time last night, and on the big screen no less. Is it the best looking film ever made? Maybe. Turns out that Kurosawa guy ain't bad!

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  • Dawnrie @dawnriedoodles.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2024

    Learning Ktisis for the first time as it became available for DT, and I JUST RAN WITH IT- (quote taken from ROTMNT movie) #gposers #yshtola

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  • Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 23, 2026

    Seeing “Ran“ when I was a teenager made me fall in love with film.

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  • Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2026

    Ran outside and saw it—was too slow to film but HOLY SHIRTBALLS

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  • Trond @trondfroestad.comBluesky · Feb 2, 2025

    Ran out of film, old Fujifilm to the Sunday rescue, still wandering. . . . #everydaybeauty #photography #wandering

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2025

    On this day (31st December) in 1987, the Scala Cinema was showing Rashomon and Ran as an Akira Kurosawa double bill.

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 23, 2026

    BOTD 3/23/1910: One of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Akira Kurasowa. Creating visual & thematic masterpieces thru decades, covered almost every genre with skill & precision. Four Faves (but honestly, impossible to choose): 52 Ikiru 54 Seven Samurai 63 High & Low 85 Ran #filmsky 📽

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  • I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.appBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    Ran (1985) good movie!

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  • Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2025

    Would you like to watch Akira Kurosawa’s Shakespearean masterpiece, Ran, or every Showa era Godzilla movie? They got you covered.

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  • Chu 🔜 BLFC @raizap.comBluesky · Nov 7, 2025

    It's been interesting seeing Detective Conan mostly through the movies because they make Shinichi's relationship with Ran look SO bad. In this movie, Ran tells Shinichi that she's frustrated he's not there when she needs him, and he hangs up on her lmao

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  • Kellachrome @kellachrome.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

    Car show, but on Harman Switch Azure film. Ran into The Rockabilly Vixens and they were more than happy to pose for a few shots. 📷 GW670III @harmanphoto.co.uk

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  • Blast Points @blastpoints.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2026

    Ran into some friends at the movie theater.

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 23, 2025

    BOTD 3/23/1910: One of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Akira Kurasowa. Creating visual & thematic masterpieces thru decades, covered almost every genre with equal skill & precision. Fave 4 📽 (Honesty, impossible to choose): 52 Ikiru 54 Seven Samurai 63 High & Low 85 Ran #filmsky 📽🎥🎬🎞

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  • Trond @trondfroestad.comBluesky · Feb 2, 2025

    Ran out of film, old Fujifilm to the Sunday rescue, still wandering. . . . #everydaybeauty #photography #wandering

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  • Kayin @kayin.moeBluesky · Jul 12, 2025

    Always confuses me because Ran is easily my favorite Kurosawa movie 😔 It's STILL all reductive anyways but I just wanna tell people to watch Ran.

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  • spooky cannoli @boner.inkBluesky · Nov 6, 2025

    going absolutely apeshit cheering whenever someone runs in the movie Ran

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  • Chu 🔜 BLFC @raizap.comBluesky · Oct 10, 2025

    I like it when Ran gets to be cool (pictured: not even close to the coolest thing she does in the movie)

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  • AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    Me trying to talk to my relatives: YOU NEED TO WATCH THAT MOVIE WHERE THE GUY FROM COMEDY CENTRAL TALKS TO THE CHICK WHO RAN THERMOS OR SOME SHIT

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  • Jonathan Melville @jonmelville.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2026

    iPlayer = film school right now, with Talking Pictures covering Kurosawa, Bergman, Varda, Truffaut and Bunuel - five of their films are available, inc Ran and Seventh Seal. Plus various archive docs, inc the 2hr Arena on Kurosawa. Many are on there for 11 months.

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  • 🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸 @thehorrorguru.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2026

    Ran across a random referring to Onslaught (2026) as a "reddit-ass movie" and every time I see a new movie referred to as "reddit" I get more and more confused as to what the fuck that even means in the context of films. 😂

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  • film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2025

    In 1990, I also caught up with Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of King Lear, 1986's Ran, meanwhile 'turmoil'. It's just had a cinema release on a lavish four-disk, 4K restoration from StudioCanal, and it's an absolute epic work of art for the ages, out now in the UK 5/5 film-authority.com/2025/07/25/ran

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  • the hum of passing days @humofpada.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2025

    A world of dew in Akira Kurosawa's Ran #cinema #film

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  • The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2025

    a still from the 1985 Japanese film Ran, directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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  • ThomasGameDocs @thomasgamedocs.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2026

    Been doing more Conan rewatching - just rewatched the best Conan movie, Countdown to Heaven. Cannot watch this one scene without crying, even more so now that Ran's original voice actress, Wakana Yamazaki, has passed away.

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  • Tsukuyomi "Zoune" MoonPhase @tsukuyomimoonphase.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2026

    Here is a commission for wishiwishi! It's Ran as she appears in the lost Touhou x Anime Tenchou film! #touhou #ranyakumo #東方project

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  • JG aka Jose 🤭🇵🇭 @animeiscool.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2026

    There is a movie "Ran" that ran a while back.. 😁 It's actually a very good movie by acclaimed director Akira Kurosawa 🫡

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  • based on a true cory @hannibaleisure.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2026

    another fantastic year of WA state horror con with @alex-wayne.bsky.social! •Met Fran Kranz and got to gush over his film MASS together •Obsessed over the fresh genre cosplay •Ran into the Zodiac killer. Cipher?! I hardly know her •Caught up with Krampus

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  • bill @halcyonfeature.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2025

    Ran is such a badass film

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  • Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2026

    The Akira Kurosawa film Ran is on iPlayer, if you need to just shut your brain off this weekend I recommend his films and just have the storms blowing in the background.

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  • Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2026

    I often think about which film I'd like to watch while smoking a bowl with Harrison Ford. I think Kurosawa's Ran.

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  • Triblast28 @triblast28.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2026

    Detective Conan Movie 1: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper This held up even better than I remember... even though my brain was conflating it with Countdown to Heaven. Every bit of the film is super rock solid and enjoyable, but when the 3rd act hits, it shoots into the moon. Ran is the greatest woman ever

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  • Dirk van Sloten @dirkvansloten.comBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    🎬 PSA for indie filmmakers: Ran WHOIS lookups on 30+ "film festivals" spamming my inbox. Cannes, London, NY, Toronto... Every single one: same registrar, same servers, same operator. One person running 30 fake festivals, collecting fees. Filed an abuse report. Investigation opened. #IndieFilm

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  • SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    The Day The Bacon Ran Out? The scariest film ever. Happy Halloween to you all 🧡

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  • Hallenbeck77 @hallenbeck77.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    Lions. Ran awhile on Netflix, 8 seasons. There's also a live-action movie Amazon MGM is making for release next year.

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  • Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2026

    Lads lads lads, Kurosawa's masterpiece, RAN, is on iPlayer. It's an astonishing film, one of the greatest ever made. Go and watch it immediately.

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  • SanguinePar @sanguinepar.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2026

    Took me a year and a half after reading all these reviews, but I finally watched Ran. Holy shit, what a film. What a central performance. What a director.

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  • earthcolors @earthcolors.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2026

    If you haven't watched it yet, please don't read, for there will be spoilers. If you see actors portraying "King Lear", there isn't much makeup but Koji's had full on, almost Kabuki-like appearance, probably paying homage to Tatsuya Nakadai in Kurosawa's epic movie "Ran" based on "King Lear".

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  • Mr Movie Lover @movieloverrr.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2026

    Ran away crying. The real movie lover wins again.

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  • Steve Gerrard @spgerrard.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2026

    Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Ran this request to the AI on Google: add "for tax purposes" to the title of 100 top movies Got 100, in various groups: Return of the King for Tax Purposes To Kill a Mockingbird for Tax Purposes Schindler's List for Tax Purposes ...

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  • Mike Varker @mikevarker.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    Ran into Austin Creed, he was wearing a dope as fuck shirt with...I think it was Powerline from Goofy Movie. Had to pass a message on, let him get on with the day. #PAXAUS

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  • Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2026

    Ran OST (mainly because it's an awesome film (go watch it)) Spirit Garden Towards the Sea Rain Tree A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden Requiem For Strings

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  • M Brown @mbrown007.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    #Ran (1985) just discovered that it is on Tubi! Great film. Ruling is all fun and games until rulership passes to the offspring! Guessing the kingdom turned out to be much smaller than he remembered.

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  • Aislinn @actualshrike.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    The library ghost from the beginning of Ghostbusters for sure! Vivid formative memory. I was only 2 or 3 and loved the cartoon, so my mom let me try the movie. Ran out of the room screaming when she got all monster-fied

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  • GoatShow @goatshow.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2026

    I watched Green Legend Ran for halloween, even though green legend ran isn't a scary movie and its not halloween

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  • Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.appBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    Yes, I'd heard snippets and saw the film but never really listened to it. Ran it back like 3x and

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  • Lil Moore @xlilmoore.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2026

    Whoever the follower is who RAN THROUGH my media for the new Ink Motel Room 7.77 bought every post individually and then tipped on the movie HI I LOVE YOOOUUUU

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  • Tim James @teejtim.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2026

    I'm sure I saw Ran on video in 89 or something. Think I told people it was the best film of all time, better than risky business or where eagles dare. Couldn't tell you a thing about it

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  • Tim F @culturalsnow.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2026

    Just want to say, the current BBC4 movie series of canonical warhorses (The Seventh Seal, Ran, Cleo de 5 a 7 etc) is *exactly* the sort of thing the BBC should be doing, and in fact they should be doing it lots more.

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  • David Tanner @7and7is.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2026

    Heads up to all film lovers in the U.K. iPlayer has uploaded a series of "world cinema classics ", plus a documentary on the films. The films are Ran, Fanny and Alexander, Belle de Jour, The Seventh Seal, Cleo from 5 to 7. #WorldCinema #Films

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  • yomimonoid.bsky.social @yomimonoid.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2026

    Wandance Live-Action Film Releases RAN Scene Photos as Ioji RAN and Ioji share a dance background, which lets director Kusaba Naoya cast the role around technique rather than dubbed movement. Wandance leans on that overlap for its choreography.

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  • Britality @britality.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2026

    Ran to the comments to find out what movie it was, thank you

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  • Not Invented @notinvented.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    I was born on the 4th of July. Luckily nothing much happened until Tom Cruise went into his, thankfully brief, 'Ran out of decent film titles so just using random dates now' phase.

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  • Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2026

    Lev, you’ve opened up a whole thread about birdsong in film. The cuckoo’s appearance at various points in Kurosawa’s ‘Ran’ is deeply significant, I think.

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