REEL ODDITIES: RAN – 4K RESTORATION

June 4, 11, & 18, 2025
Reel Oddities: Ran – 4K Restoration
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa / 1985 / Japanese with English subtitles / 162 min

Based on an original negative, the majority of the restoration work was done manually, image by image. Color grading was approved by Masaharu Ueda, one of Ran’s three cinematographers and a close associate of Kurosawa’s.

SCREENING: WED 6/4 7PM; WED 6/11 7PM; WED 6/18 7PM

$13 GA & $10 OFS. Tickets are available at the box office 30 minutes before showtimes.