"RAN" (1985, Dir: Akira Kurosawa)

An episode of the The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast podcast, hosted by Corbin Smith and Matt Ellis, titled ""RAN" (1985, Dir: Akira Kurosawa)" was published on January 23, 2026 and runs 96 minutes.

January 23, 2026 ·96m · The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast

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Episode Description

The master is here folks and this time he wields the themes and some of the particulars of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S great work KING LEAR in service of a hypnotic nightmare about the horrors of war. It whips! We talk about that, about Kurosawa as a supremely 'Cinematic' figure trying on a 'Theatatrical' think in this movie, Lear as an eternal political fable, some of the hot shit sequences in here, and other stuff.

this is a weird way to deal with this bit theres a lot of interesting academic writing about RAN out there, in shakespeare journals and filmic ones. peek around if you wanna learn something.

Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. Matt is also on there. We also got a Bluesky going.

Matt's rec is in theaters. Corbin's rec is mega off the done. We dont know what the next episode is, for reasons that would take too long to explin here. Thanks!

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