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From: cs111olg@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: RAN
Message-ID: <8733@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 05:49:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 05:49:14 1986
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Reply-To: cs111olg@ucla-cs.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev (the student incarnation))
Organization: The Land Of Mental Midgets
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Summary: I'd give it +3.5 ( having not seen KAGEMUSHA and hoping... )

In article <1629@mtgzz.UUCP> leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) writes:
>the story is very much borrowed from KING LEAR.  At least that
>was what was said at first.  Now I hear that it is based on a traditional
>Japanese story and only during production were the parallels to KING LEAR
>pointed out.  I am a little sorry to hear Kurosawa make that claim because
>the plot is too similar to KING LEAR, incident for incident and right down
>to having characters like the wise fool.  I respect Kurosawa as a filmmaker,
>but I simply think he is lying here.  

I've heard that Kurosawa has been talking of making "King Lear" for 
over a decade and has stated that RAN *IS* based on "King Lear"...

One of inetersting minor sub-plots of RAN was about a role and significance
of Buhddism and the false security of faith.