Wow I just watched Ran and it was so so so amazing. Completely blown away!

Ran (Japanese: 乱, "chaos", "wretchedness") is an Oscar-winning 1985 film written and directed by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. It is a jidaigeki (Japanese period drama) depicting the fall of Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai), an aging Sengoku-era warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favor of his three sons. The story is based on legends of the daimyo Mori Motonari, as well as on the Shakespearean tragedy King Lear.
-Wikipedia

Seeing it on small screen doesn't do it justice. This is my first ever full period movie and it was totally absorbing. And the sets were wow. And seeing the Osaka Castle 'burn up' was a fiery sight. (It looks like Osaka Castle but I could be wrong!!) I'm just speechless. Kurosawa is a genius. The last scene was especially poignant, summing up the hopelessness and the bleakness. It's not those sort of endings where you're filled with that sad feeling, but rather, this sad feeling is so inevitable yet so final that it strikes you really hard in the chest.

And the music. It's the flute that does it. It makes you feel so wretched and empty that it kinda gnaws at you.

I'm still speechless. I'm not thinking straight.

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