Ran (15) at South Hill Park – On the Big Screen – In Partnership with South Hill Park
Wed 15 Jul
|South Hill Park Arts Centre
By turns achingly delicate and bracingly violent, Ran is the last great masterpiece of Akira Kurosawa - GUARDIAN
Time & Location
15 Jul 2026, 19:00
South Hill Park Arts Centre, Ringmead, Bracknell RG12 7PA, UK
About the Event
Directed by Akira Kurosawa | Historical epic | 161 mins | France/Japan | 1985 | Japanese with English subtitles
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
After a lifetime of brutal rule, ageing feudal lord Hidetora tells his three sons Taro, Jiro and Saburo that he intends to abdicate, leaving the kingdom divided between them. Baffled, Saburo derides this plan, earning banishment, and the remaining two brothers, greedy and duplicitous in ways they have clearly inherited from their now fatuously sentimental father, plunge the country into chaotic civil war, incited by Taro’s wife Lady Kaede. Hidetora loses his mind with anguish and horror, and roams the vast plain, with his jester Kyoami and his loyal vassal Tango.
There is not a wasted second... Kurosawa is a director who becomes godlike rather than gaga in old age – FINANCIAL TIMES