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Ran, Studio Canal ; distributed by Toho Co., Ltd. and Nippon Herald Films, Inc. ; [presented by] Serge Silberman and Katsumi Furukawa ; [a French-Japanese coproduction Greenwich Film Production S.A. Paris/Herald Ace Inc./Nippon Herald Films Inc. (Tokyo)] ; produit par Serge Silberman et Masato Hara ; scénario et dialogues de Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide ; réalisé par Akira Kurosawa

Some credits from containerBased on "King Lear" by William ShakespeareOriginally released as a Japanese motion picture in 1985Series numbering from container spineEdition from containerRecorded in Dolby digital stereo"1.85:1 aspect ratio, enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs"--ContainerSpecial features: Disc 1: audio commentary by film scholar Stephen Prince; an appreciation of the film by director Sidney Lumet; theatrical trailers; Disc 2: "A.K.", a 74-minute film by director Chris Marker; a 30-minute documentary on the making of 'Ran', part of the "Toho Masterworks" series "Akira Kurosawa: It is wonderful to create"; a 35-minute video piece reconstructing 'Ran' through Kurosawa's paintings and sketches, created as part of the series "Image: Kurosawa's continuity"; new video interview with actor Tatsuya Nakadai; a 28-page booklet featuring film critic Michael Wilmington and interviews with Kurosawa and composer Toru Takemitsu

multicolored

stereophonic

Directors of photography, Takao Saito ; music, Toru Takemitsu ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson

other

Special ed.

9781559409667

videodisc

Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Peter, Takeshi Nomura, Hisashi Ikawa, Masayuki Yui, Kenji Kodama, Toshiya Ito, Norio Matsui, Kazuo Kato, Takeshi Kato, Jun Tazaki, Hitoshi Ueki

2 videodiscs (160 min.), sd., col., 4 3/4 in.

sound on medium

videodisc

(Sirsi) 998650(OCoLC)62257105

DVD

715515016827

CC1618D -- Criterion Collection

DVD