FILM 1336: RAN
TRIVIA: Akira Kurosawa's wife of
39 years, Yôko Yaguchi, died during
the production of this film. Kurosawa halted filming for just one day to mourn
before resuming work on the picture.
Several hundred costumes were all
created by hand. This process took two years to complete.
Akira Kurosawa referred to
his previous film, Kagemusha
(1980), as a "dress rehearsal" for this film. He spent ten years
storyboarding every shot in the film as paintings. The resulting collection of
images was published with the screenplay.
"Ran," generally
translated from the Japanese, means "chaos" or "revolt."
A scene which required an entire
field to be sprayed gold was filmed but left out of the final film during
editing.
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