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Ran

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Ran	comment	Ran (乱, Japanese for "rebellion", or "disturbed/confused") is a 1985 film by Akira Kurosawa, made late in his career. The third and last of Kurosawa's Shakespeare adaptations (after Throne of Blood, based on Macbeth, and The Bad Sleep Well, loosely based on Hamlet), it was heavily influenced by King Lear, relocated to the Warring States period in Japan.Warlord Hidetora of the Ichimonji clan (Tatsuya Nakadai), once a feared and powerful man, is now in his twilight years. He decides to divide his domain between his three sons Taro, Jiro, and Saburo, while he remains a figurehead. Saburo, the youngest, disagrees with the plan and is banished. Sound familiar?With Saburo away, Taro and Jiro begin feuding over succession as head of the clan. Egged on by his wife, Lady Kaede, Taro uses Hidetora's insolent jester Kyoami as a pretext for stripping him of his powers. Hidetora is made persona non grata and forced to relocate to Saburo's abandoned castle, which is then sacked by Taro and Jiro's forces. Unable to find a blade to commit seppuku with, Hidetora goes mad and wanders, dazed, from the burning castle, as his world crumbles around him.Kurosawa wrote the screenplay ten years before its eventual release, during which he meticulously painted storyboards for every scene while he sought funding. At the time of its release—five years after Kagemusha, a film considered by Kurosawa a dress rehearsal for Ran— it had the largest budget of any Japanese film ever made until then. While it garnered praise from critics worldwide, its box office performance was lackluster, and was passed over for the Academy Awards in both the United States and Japan. In the years since, it has come to be seen as one of Kurosawa's best films, and one of the best films of all time.Not to be confused with a certain nine-tailed kitsune, nor a sex-changing martial artist, Shinichi Kudo's Love Interest, or a Norse sea goddess.
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Ran / int_11cac491	type	Tragedy
Ran / int_11cac491	comment	Tragedy: Not completely devoid of humor, but it's no comedy.
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Ran / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Ran / int_1235f055	comment	Taro, despite being the eldest and expected heir, does not exhibit explicitly any form of valor in combat—with even his assault on his father done as practically a backstab. A proverbial descriptor for a Dirty Coward is 'yellow-bellied'.
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Ran / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Ran / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Like in historical Japan, the introduction of gunpowder weapons can easily bring down a powerful daimyo through impersonal combat. By the end of the story, very few main characters are left standing.
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Ran / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
Ran / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: A group of Hidetora's concubines put themselves between him and a group of Taro's arquebusiers at the Third Castle. All of them die.
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Ran / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Ran / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Hidetora has a huge one after the Third Castle is burned. He stops speaking and can barely remember his own name.
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Ran / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Ran / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Easily one of the darkest films Akira Kurosawa ever made.
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Ran / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Ran / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The sons' names (Takatora for Taro, Masatora for Jiro, Naotora for Saburo), which are almost never used in the film.
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Ran / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
Ran / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: Saburo is exiled after he forcefully tries to talk sense to his father. Rather than kill him, Hidetora had Tsurumaru's eyes torn out and exiled him into the wilderness.
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Ran / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Ran / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Hidetora didn't become the sole head of the Ichimonji clan through sycophantic grovelling. He paved his way to kingship through war and battle. But when he retired...
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Ran / int_1da46897	type	Lady Macbeth
Ran / int_1da46897	comment	Lady Macbeth: Lady Kaede, who pushes her husbands into conflict with their father and each other.
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Ran / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
Ran / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: In the chaos of the attack on the Third Castle, Taro is shot in the back out of nowhere by one of Jiro's generals.
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Ran / int_1dc5730a	type	CharacterTic
Ran / int_1dc5730a	comment	Character Tic: Whenever he suspects somebody is trying to be sneaky, Saburo develops an itch.
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Ran / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Ran / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: In a sense, if comparing this film to King Lear. For the most part, Lear in Shakespeare's work was at worst merely a naive old king unjustly betrayed. Kurosawa, for his part, saw it fit to give his Lear-figure Hidetora an appropriately bloody past—who to an extent deserved everything that happened to him for the duration of the film.
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Ran / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Ran / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: During the final battle, a soldier hands a wrapped severed head to Kurogane. Kurogane expects that it's Saburo's head. It's Lady Sué's. Before that, Lady Keade expects the head of Lady Sué. Instead, it's the head of a fox statue. Kurogane tells her "Lady Sué must have been a fox in disguise! A clever fox indeed!"
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Ran / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Ran / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Only the crappiest.
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Ran / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Ran / int_23ff95fb	comment	Saburo, despite being defined by Brutal Honesty, remains the most level-headed and moral of the brothers, nicely contrasting him with Jiro. Saburo's flags, blue with white stripes in them, hints to his more pacific and reasonable mien, as well as his true loyalties.
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Ran / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Ran / int_24321e44	comment	The Jester certainly feels like the Only Sane Man when he has to look after an increasingly maddened Hidetora.
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Ran / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Ran / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: After his army wins a great victory and he has rescued and reconciled with his father, Saburo is shot dead by one of Jiro's snipers, causing Hidetora to die soon afterwards of a heart attack.
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Ran / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Ran / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Lady Sué. So much so that Hidetora is a little frightened by her.
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Ran / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Ran / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Hidetora is a feared Living Legend, being remembered as a merciless warlord who spared no blood in conquering all of his neighboring kingdoms. During the storming of the Third Castle, the mere sight of him is enough to make the attacking armies back down.
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Ran / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Ran / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Hidetora, once a powerful warlord, is reduced to an insane and remorseful shell of himself by the film's events.
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Ran / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
Ran / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: The film references an apocryphal tale of Mori Motonari that Hidetore replicates: knowing his three sons would succeed him, he gives each of them an arrow to break, which they do easily, but then he gives each of them a bundle of three arrows kept together, to teach them the importance of staying united. Taro and Jiro fail to break it, Saburo however manages to snap the three bundled arrows using his knee to apply leveraged force, which only asserts his belief that his brothers are inadequate and not to be trusted. Hidetora is understandably not excited by this reinterpretation.
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Ran / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
Ran / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: Hidetora thinks he's preventing one with his dividing of the realm, but it's only postponed as the three sons esteem there are still two wrongful heirs.
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Ran / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Ran / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Despite her Karmic Death, Lady Kaede has successfully destroyed the House of Ichimonji, right down to the castles. She, the undisputed villain and single most evil character in a film loaded with Gray-and-Grey Morality, is the only character in the film that got everything she wanted.
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Ran / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Ran / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Kurogane, a man who is no stranger to war, bloodshed and assassinations, is outraged when Lady Kaede orders Lady Sué's death. When another assassin brings the head of Lady Sué, this motivates Kurogane into such a state of fury that he murders Kaede himself.
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Ran / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Ran / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Hidetora Ichimonji has Lady Kaede, whose parents he killed and who manipulates an entire war to bring him down.
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Ran / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
Ran / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: The feuding children are male, as opposed to the ones in King Lear. A literal instance of She's a Man in Japan, in fact. In the opposite direction, Edmund has been turned into a woman.
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Ran / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
Ran / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: Invoked by Lady Kaede, to further ingratiate herself with Jiro.
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Ran / int_37c0711c	type	Betrayal by Offspring
Ran / int_37c0711c	comment	Betrayal by Offspring: Hidetora's sons, Taro and Jiro, turn against their father and strip him of his power.
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Ran / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Ran / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Saburo, the most heroic of the three brothers, is shot unceremoniously by a sniper and Hidetora has a heart attack in the end.
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Ran / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Ran / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: A villainous version of this is used by Lady Kaede. She effortlessly plays off of both Hidetora's, Taro's, and Jiro's biggest flaws, and despite the fact that her plan could fail at any time by either Taro or Jiro just saying no... it never happens because she's so damn good at what she does.
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Ran / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Ran / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity Attempted twice by Hidetora when the Third Castle is attacked. First he grabs his sword and runs out to meet the attackers, intending to die in battle, but it breaks against the armor of the first person he hits it with. After this he runs back inside and attempts seppuku, but cannot find a sword to do it with, and so he just sits motionless in the burning tower and waits to die. Even then, the men assume him to be dead anyway and don't come to kill him. Hidetora isn't getting off the hook that easily. Lady Kaede calmly admits to everything and accepts her death when Kurogane beheads her. Justified as even though she dies, she got everything she wanted.
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Ran / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Ran / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Perhaps the real message of the film, because nothing in the film was a random event or a capricious will of God. Everything that happens is due to the cycle of violence and revenge that no one can seem to sate.
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Ran / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Ran / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Saburo's arquebusiers completely wipe out Jiro's cavalry despite their lesser numbers, mainly due to Jiro's tactical incompetence.
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Ran / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
Ran / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Lady Sué, due to her strong Buddhist faith. She doesn't even hate Hidetora for murdering her family and burning their castle, something that disturbs him.
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Ran / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
Ran / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: Aristocrats in medieval Japan have fabulous clothes.
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Ran / int_3ed195b4	type	Human Pincushion
Ran / int_3ed195b4	comment	Human Pincushion: Multiple people get absolutely riddled with arrows at the Third Castle.
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Ran / int_3f13413a	type	Staggered Zoom
Ran / int_3f13413a	comment	Staggered Zoom: Two paired together end the film. A distance shot shows Tsurumaru, blind, standing on the battlements of his family's wrecked castle. A staggered zoom in ends with him in closeup—whereupon he drops the image of Buddha that his sister had left with him to protect him. Then there's a staggered zoom out, back to the distance shot of Tsurumaru on the walls, and that is the last shot of the film.
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Ran / int_401089da	type	Offstage Villainy
Ran / int_401089da	comment	Offstage Villainy: Hidetora's bloody conquests. We meet some of the survivors, who are, understandably, rather ticked off. Keeping Hidetora's bad acts offscreen, to an extent, helps us sympathize a bit with him—even if the film is clear that his sufferings are, in many ways, deserved.
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Ran / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Ran / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Taro, after being built up as a big threat, is unceremoniously shot by his own general while triumphantly riding into the Third Castle. His wife Kaede doesn't mind a bit. The same thing happens to Saburo, right after it looks like he might have finally gotten his way.
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Ran / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Ran / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Saburo is simultaneously the most abrasive and one of the most pure-hearted and purely good characters in the film. Kyoami is more thoughtful and caring than he lets on. He stays with Hidetora even after he's gone insane and been driven out into the wilderness. There are numerous points where the jester could easily desert Hidetora, but he stays loyal to his liege the entire film.
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Ran / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Ran / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: Oh, man, the attack on the Third Castle scene. Oh. God. That will overlap as Nightmare Fuel for a lot of people. The sheer brutality of that scene was even the basis for the Omaha Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan, right down to the soldier holding his torn arm. In fact, some have considered the Scenery Gorn to be Scenery Porn at the same time.
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Ran / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Ran / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Some of the establishing shots are quite likely amongst the most beautiful in cinema history. The framing is excellent in this film: it would be fair to say that any scene where the camera doesn't move would be just as good a painting. The colors! The colors!!
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Ran / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Ran / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: You don't need to see a beheading when the results of it are even more obvious. Results in High-Pressure Blood.
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Ran / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Ran / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Hidetora finally reconciles with Saburo, and they ride off to put down the rebellions... then Saburo gets shot, and Hidetora dies of a heart attack. Kyoami is left crying and wondering if the gods exist, and if so, whether or not they're sadists. Kurogane learns of Kaede's manipulations, kills her in front of Jiro as she declares her victory, and they make a last stand in an uncertain fate against the Ayabe army. And also, Tsurumaru, the blind man, is left alone atop the desolate ruins of his family's old castle, not knowing that his sister has been murdered. As he blindly walks around trying to find a way out of the ruins, he runs up against a cliff and ends up dropping the scroll of the Buddha that Sué gave him for protection, leaving him completely alone without even the comfort of the gods, as the sun sinks over the horizon and the screen fades to black.
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Ran / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Ran / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Hidetora sports shades of this by the end. Sadly, by then, it's too late for him to help anyone.
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Ran / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
Ran / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: The burning of the Third Castle.
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Ran / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Ran / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: Hidetora and his sons. A subversion (also of Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal) with the outspoken Saburo, who receives a lesser share and is outcast, but he is the one son who remains dutifully loyal.
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Ran / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Ran / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Four-Star Badass Kurogane serves as Jiro's and is probably the most balanced character of the story.
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Ran / int_5869bd44	type	Arrows on Fire
Ran / int_5869bd44	comment	Arrows on Fire: Used in assaulting the Third Castle.
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Ran / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Ran / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Averted regarding Court Jester, the medieval European court jester lacks a clear Japanese counterpart (a low-birth wouldn't dare pestering around nobles), but it was transplanted directly because of his important Foil role.
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Ran / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Ran / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Kurogane. The name literally means "Black Steel." Likewise Hidetora, "Outstanding Tiger".
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Ran / int_61881f59	type	Demoted to Dragon
Ran / int_61881f59	comment	Demoted to Dragon: Jiro is initially making his own grab for power, but the moment he is alone with Lady Kaede, he is so intimidated by her that he is soon bobbing his head up and down for her like an obedient dog.
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Ran / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Ran / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Hidetora. Kyoami moans that the fool is now acting like a King, and the King is acting like a fool.
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Ran / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
Ran / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: Despite his declining condition, Hidetora demonstrates he hasn't completely rusted when he snipes one of Taro's soldiers with an arrow for trying to kill his jester. This is no longer the case after he fully gives into madness, and ironically, his killing of that soldier helped lead to that.
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Ran / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Ran / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Played with, Tsurumaru, brother of Lady Suè is recognized by Hidetora, who is the one surprised by the reciprocity. Tsurumaru bitterly points out the impossibility of forgetting the man who burned his castle and removed his eyes when he was only a child.
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Ran / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Ran / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Kurosawa remarked "Hidetora is me". He was an aged big-shot moviemaker in his twilight, old-fashioned and with chronic problems finding support for his projects in his own country. Furthermore Kurosawa had a Bungled Suicide episode, reminiscent of the intended seppuku of Hidetora, whose life is saved by his inability to procure a sword. Critics, on the other hand, also see some of Kurosawa in Tsurumaru, whose tragedies and symbolic presence in the film are read as markers of Kurosawa's own insecurities, crises of faith and fear for his impending mortality (see Rule of Symbolism below).
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Ran / int_67d722d8	type	A Storm Is Coming
Ran / int_67d722d8	comment	A Storm Is Coming: Both literally and figuratively. The gathering of clouds in the sky is a recurring visual motif.
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Ran / int_688bddeb	type	Guns vs. Swords
Ran / int_688bddeb	comment	Guns vs. Swords: The musketeer units devastate the samurai who fight with more traditional weapons whenever they take the field (though they are also shown having an insane rate of fire for matchlock arquebuses).
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Ran / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Ran / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Saburo insults his father for putting too much trust in his sons and is proven correct very quickly after Hidetora hands his leadership over to Taro. Kyoami spends much of the film acting like an obnoxious idiot and provoking the more serious characters, but he makes lots of correct observations that get ignored, such as advising Hidetora not to take refuge in the Third Castle.
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Ran / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Ran / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Taro, Jiro and Saburo literally mean "First son, second son and third son". Hidetora (秀虎), their father, meaning "outstanding tiger". Kurogane: "Black Steel"
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Ran / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Ran / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Part of Hidetora's Character Development, from ruthless warlord to traumatized, lonely, remorseful old man.
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Ran / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Ran / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Real Life flamboyant gay man and drag queen Peter plays Kyoami, after the fashion of traditional Japanese Noh theater.
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Ran / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Ran / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Taro. Not that Jiro does any better.
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Ran / int_72e54916	type	Retired Monster
Ran / int_72e54916	comment	Retired Monster: Hidetora is a ruthless warlord and an infamous Living Legend who decides to retire and divide his realm among his sons.
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Ran / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Ran / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Except for Saburo, Sué, Kyoami and Tango, the characters are a morally mixed bunch at best.
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Ran / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Ran / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Kyoami, compared to Shakespeare's Fool.
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Ran / int_77848bc1	type	The Sons and the Spears
Ran / int_77848bc1	comment	The Sons and the Spears: Hidetora tries to use this to encourage his sons to stick together. The fable is deconstructed by Saburo managing to break it anyway, but Hidetora takes the intended reality check as a mockery.
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Ran / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Ran / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Hidetora sees the dissension among his sons as a risk to his family's power. His solution to that problem annihilates the clan.
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Ran / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Ran / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The First Castle is stormed at the end. It is up to viewer's imagination whether Jiro, Kurogane and Jiro's other retainers survive victorious, are killed in the battle, or commit seppuku off-screen.
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Ran / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Ran / int_79a60aec	comment	As mentioned in For Want of a Nail above, the three sons of Hidetora were supposedly parallel to the three sons of Mori Motonari—these being the generals Mori Takamoto, Kikkawa Motoharu and Kobayakawa Takakage.note Curiously, their lives were indeed reflected a bit in the film: the eldest son Takamoto (i.e. Taro) was assassinated after succeeding to the clan, second son Motoharu was a bit more belligerent against the family's enemies (but was way more competent than Jiro), and Takakage, just like Saburo, was a talented general and tactician—with the added bonus of actually dying peacefully, having served and led well for most of his life.
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Ran / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
Ran / int_7bb844ec	comment	Villain Decay: Jiro initially demonstrates some real cunning in his bid to wrestle power away from his father and brother. However, he winds up becoming Lady Kaede's puppet and turns out to be a spectacular General Failure.
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Ran / int_7c4ba0e0	type	Red Sky, Take Warning
Ran / int_7c4ba0e0	comment	Red Sky, Take Warning: See A Storm Is Coming below.
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Ran / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Ran / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Hidetora eliminates families to which he is supposedly allied by marriage.
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Ran / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
Ran / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: Taro meets his end this way.
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Ran / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Ran / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In the first dialogue scene of the film, Saburo gets two, back to back. In conversation, he seems hot-headed and brash; but when Lord Hidetora falls asleep, Saburo alone bothers to cut and erect some branches so that the old man might nap in the shade. Saburo would be the only one of the brothers to not betray his father and offer kindness to him during his misery.
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Ran / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
Ran / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: Hidetora is a classic example, a great man brought low by his own flaws and mistakes.
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Ran / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Ran / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Two retainers help defeat their master, Hidetora. Hidetora's son rewards them as they agreed, however he then explains that he can't very well have retainers who obviously disregard loyalty to their master, and kicks them out. Later on they wander too close to one of Hidetora's loyal followers and get chased down and killed.
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Ran / int_8371780c	type	SpeakTruthToPower
Ran / int_8371780c	comment	Speak Truth To Power: Tango defends the validity of Saburo's objections, which gets him exiled.
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Ran / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Ran / int_8543ec22	comment	On a more personal level, many of the actors and staff Kurosawa worked with had died by the time the film was made, and Kurosawa had had a falling-out with actor Toshiro Mifune in 1965, giving a definite Reality Subtext to scenes where Hidetora banished his son and was himself isolated. Furthermore, the Kanji for Kurosawa's first name "Akira" features a sun and moon, and the crest for the House of Ichimonji is a sun and moon.
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Ran / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
Ran / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: While casting out his youngest son, Hidetora proclaims that he loved Saburo the most, and regrets that he spoiled him.
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Ran / int_8b3fe1cb	type	Flaw Exploitation
Ran / int_8b3fe1cb	comment	Flaw Exploitation: Lady Kaede exploits Hidetora's pride, Taro's lack of assertiveness, and Jiro's obsession with virility.
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Ran / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Ran / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The attack on the Third Castle, which kills Taro, drives Hidetora insane, and leads Jiro to gaining power over Ichimonji.
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Ran / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
Ran / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Kurogane for Jiro's faction, Saburo for Hidetora's sons.
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Ran / int_904530eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Ran / int_904530eb	comment	Recycled In SPACE: King Lear in feudal Japan. Kurosawa claimed he based the movie on the history of Mori Motonari and he only became aware of the striking similarities of both stories once his project was underway. Be that as it may, Kurosawa had already used the trope in Throne of Blood, Macbeth in feudal Japan.
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Ran / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Ran / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Her revenge complete, Lady Kaede is treated by Kurogane to a well-deserved death. Hidetora was a cruel warlord who murdered countless people to build his empire and never showed an ounce of pity or mercy to his victims. By the end, because of his own hubris and the machinations of one of his victims, his lands are in ruins, his children dead, and he is reduced to an insane, remorseful wanderer who can barely remember his own name. When he finally dies of a heart attack, it's with the knowledge that all the blood he spilled and the empire he built was meaningless.
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Ran / int_90dfa0d0	type	Noble Top Enforcer
Ran / int_90dfa0d0	comment	Noble Top Enforcer: Kurogane, the honorable samurai, is this to Jiro.
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Ran / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Ran / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Hidetora gets a big, heaping helping of it.
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Ran / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Ran / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The very last scene of the film is Tsurumaru (probably the only unambiguously good character to survive) having wandered close to a cliff edge◊, accidentally dropping his scroll portraying the Buddha to the abyss—with the very real possibility of him looking for it and inadvertently hurtling to his doom. With this immediately following Tango and Kyoami's bitter ruminations about how the gods cannot (and do not) intervene against humanity's evil (plus the general nihilism of the entire story), it makes for a suitable Downer Ending. (One might suspect a line from Julius Caesar might be apropos: "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.")
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Ran / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
Ran / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: The driving force behind Lady Kaede. A The Dog Bites Back story.
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Ran / int_942ca04a	type	The Bard on Board
Ran / int_942ca04a	comment	The Bard on Board: Apparently written at first by Kurosawa without any previous knowledge of King Lear, but after he found the stories to be similar, he rewrote the script to fit even more closely.
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Ran / int_95a70bb1	type	Wild Hair
Ran / int_95a70bb1	comment	Wild Hair: Tsurumaru's hair is appropriately long and unkempt for a blind hermit. Hidetora's gets this way after going completely insane.
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Ran / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Ran / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Lady Kaede is manipulating the entire war. Big Bad Duumvirate: Jiro thinks that he and Lady Kaede are this. He's wrong.
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Ran / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Ran / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Jiro thinks that he and Lady Kaede are this. He's wrong.
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Ran / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Ran / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: During the attack on the Third Castle, Hidetora's concubines are seen killing themselves to avoid being captured.
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Ran / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
Ran / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Lady Sué, due to her fervent Buddhism. Ultimately leads to her death when, despite Tsurumaru's begging her not to, she goes back to his house to check on a servant that hadn't come back, running right into one of Jiro's assassins in the process.
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Ran / int_9aca7084	type	Playing the Heart Strings
Ran / int_9aca7084	comment	Playing the Heart Strings: During the sack of the third castle. The music is cut short by Taro's assassination.
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Ran / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Ran / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Kaede to Sué. Both are the daughters of families that Hidetora slaughtered, who were forcefully married to his sons. However, while Sué takes refuge in her Buddhist faith and bears no ill will towards Hidetora or his family, Kaede seethes with hatred for all of them and plots to have them destroy each other when Hidetora's abdication provides an opening. Hammered home when Kaede has Sué murdered as part of her plans.
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Ran / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Ran / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: What happens to the Third Castle. Hidetora did this years earlier to Sué and Tsurumaru's castle.
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Ran / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
Ran / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: Lady Sué, the most innocent and kindhearted character in the film, is murdered by her own husband at Lady Kaede's behest.
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Ran / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
Ran / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: One of the main themes.
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Ran / int_9ec60b8b	type	White Shirt of Death
Ran / int_9ec60b8b	comment	Hidetora wearing a White Shirt of Death is not only appropriate for his status as a powerful and feared warlord who heralded death for his enemies, but foreshadows how the death of his sons, his realm, and his legacy will come to haunt him in turn.
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Ran / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
Ran / int_a01f88a7	comment	General Failure: Jiro, all the way. He ignores the advice of his more-experienced battle commanders, allows himself to get surrounded by three different armies, sends his men charging off only to get cut down by enemy gunfire, and all while leaving his seat of power open for attack. Needless to say, things don't end well for him.
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Ran / int_a0955420	type	She's a Man in Japan
Ran / int_a0955420	comment	She's a Man in Japan: See the notes on the Gender Flip. Shakespeare’s openly assertive princesses would look less plausible in feudal Japan. In contrast, the Lady Macbeth-ish Lady Kaede (rooting from Edmund) is instead a very well-recognized trope in Sengoku period historiography.note The figures of Hino Tomiko and Lady Chacha come to mind.
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Ran / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Ran / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Tsurumaru's eyes were gouged out in exchange for sparing his life. Done offscreen, thankfully. One of the extras gets a painful looking arrow to the eye during a battle. Onscreen, unfortunately.
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Ran / int_a696c783	type	Event Title
Ran / int_a696c783	comment	Event Title: Translates to "rebellion."
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Ran / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Ran / int_a8559a9f	comment	Hidetora himself, beyond the plot function borrowed from Motonari's myth, borrows a lot more from the blood-soaked reputations of Real Life Sengoku Period warlords like Oda Nobunaga (particularly his disdain for the Buddha), not to mention a brusquer take on Takeda Shingen, who Tatsuya Nakadai previously portrayed in Kagemusha.
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Ran / int_aac2244a	type	EvilVsEvil
Ran / int_aac2244a	comment	Evil vs. Evil. In spades, but especially Taro vs Jiro. Hey, this is King Lear transferred into Sengoku era Japan!
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Ran / int_ac928039	comment	Four-Star Badass: Kurogane, see rest of page. Saburo's general also counts, managing to defeat Jiro's much larger army in the field without losing a single man.
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Ran / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Kurogane, while mocking Kaede to her face.
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Ran / int_af8974a3	type	Breakable Weapons
Ran / int_af8974a3	comment	Subverted in Hidetora's case. It pays to have an extra sword on hand in times like these.
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Ran / int_b0855ef3	comment	No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Almost indistinguishable by the end-product (especially as the references to King Lear become more apparent), but: As mentioned in For Want of a Nail above, the three sons of Hidetora were supposedly parallel to the three sons of Mori Motonari—these being the generals Mori Takamoto, Kikkawa Motoharu and Kobayakawa Takakage.note Curiously, their lives were indeed reflected a bit in the film: the eldest son Takamoto (i.e. Taro) was assassinated after succeeding to the clan, second son Motoharu was a bit more belligerent against the family's enemies (but was way more competent than Jiro), and Takakage, just like Saburo, was a talented general and tactician—with the added bonus of actually dying peacefully, having served and led well for most of his life. Hidetora himself, beyond the plot function borrowed from Motonari's myth, borrows a lot more from the blood-soaked reputations of Real Life Sengoku Period warlords like Oda Nobunaga (particularly his disdain for the Buddha), not to mention a brusquer take on Takeda Shingen, who Tatsuya Nakadai previously portrayed in Kagemusha.
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Ran / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Ran / int_b4c406a6	comment	Death by Despair: Hidetora suffers a heart attack immediately after Saburo's sudden death.
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Ran / int_b4f0170e	type	EpicFilm
Ran / int_b4f0170e	comment	Epic Film: The most expensive Japanese film produced up to that time. A three-hour-long tragedy where the battle sequences involve thousands of extras.
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Ran / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Ran / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: There are some things worth leaving behind...
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Ran / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: Kyoami the fool, who gets a reply very reminiscent of Julius Caesar; the fault is in ourselves not in the gods (stars), who are the ones who should be mad at the mortals.
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Ran / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
Ran / int_ba6cf869	comment	Jiro, noticeably the one who exhibits the worst caricature of a Sengoku-era samurai (the predilection for Rape, Pillage, and Burn and Chronic Backstabbing Disorder), is coded red. This helps highlight his subsequent Red Oni, Blue Oni dynamics with Saburo, as the remaining sons of Hidetora seeking to reclaim their father's legacy for themselves.
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Ran / int_bb49a7a	type	I've Come Too Far
Ran / int_bb49a7a	comment	I've Come Too Far: You've Come Too Far. When Jiro seems on the verge of following his dazed, catatonic father out of the third castle, General Kurogane tells him that there's no faltering now and he has to pursue his path to "absolute rule".
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Ran / int_bb660963	type	Color-Coded Characters
Ran / int_bb660963	comment	Color-Coded Characters: Taro, Jiro, and Saburo are yellow, red, and blue respectively (as are their respective armies). Hidetora is for the most part coded with white. These may even help highlight their key characterization in the story. Taro, despite being the eldest and expected heir, does not exhibit explicitly any form of valor in combat—with even his assault on his father done as practically a backstab. A proverbial descriptor for a Dirty Coward is 'yellow-bellied'. Jiro, noticeably the one who exhibits the worst caricature of a Sengoku-era samurai (the predilection for Rape, Pillage, and Burn and Chronic Backstabbing Disorder), is coded red. This helps highlight his subsequent Red Oni, Blue Oni dynamics with Saburo, as the remaining sons of Hidetora seeking to reclaim their father's legacy for themselves. Saburo, despite being defined by Brutal Honesty, remains the most level-headed and moral of the brothers, nicely contrasting him with Jiro. Saburo's flags, blue with white stripes in them, hints to his more pacific and reasonable mien, as well as his true loyalties. Hidetora wearing a White Shirt of Death is not only appropriate for his status as a powerful and feared warlord who heralded death for his enemies, but foreshadows how the death of his sons, his realm, and his legacy will come to haunt him in turn.
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Ran / int_c091ce5f	comment	Samurai: Hidetora's family, its retainers, and their rival clans are all samurai.
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Ran / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: After Saburo calls out Hidetora for his delusional plans of a peaceful succession, Hidetora breaks their tides with Saburo, calls him a stranger and banishes him.
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Ran / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Saburo finds Hidetora and manages to finally reconcile with him, promising that they can live in peace in Lord Fujimaki's lands. As they ride away together, Jiro's arquebusiers finally arrive and shoot Saburo dead, causing Hidetora to die of a heart attack.
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Ran / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Taro believes that being named Hidetora's heir gives him limitless power, all the while unaware how he is being callously manipulated by his wife and the film's true Big Bad, Lady Kaede. Jiro is a step up from Taro, having the cunning and tenacity to back up his ambitions, but he still can't measure up to Lady Kaede.
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Ran / int_c78d3e08	comment	Seppuku: Lady Kaede's mother after Hidetora took the First Castle; Hidetora's concubines during the attack on the Third Castle. In addition, Jiro, Kurogane, and Jiro's other main retainers presumably do so offscreen when the First Castle is about to be destroyed. Unless, of course, they get killed in the battle or emerge victorious on their Last Stand. Subverted in Hidetora's case. It pays to have an extra sword on hand in times like these.
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Ran / int_ca4e037	comment	Dude Looks Like a Lady: Kyoami and Tsurumaru. Tango actually mistakes Tsurumaru for a woman at first.
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Ran / int_cab5085a	type	Rain of Arrows
Ran / int_cab5085a	comment	Rain of Arrows: The attack on the Third Castle.
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Ran / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Ran / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Lady Kaede's family was murdered by Hidetora, who took their ancestral castle for his own and married her to one of his sons. Years later, when Hidetora's old age provides an opening, she seizes the opportunity to manipulate his house into a civil war, bringing about the deaths of him and all his sons and the ruination of their lands.
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Ran / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Ran / int_cf92fea8	comment	Kyoami spends much of the film acting like an obnoxious idiot and provoking the more serious characters, but he makes lots of correct observations that get ignored, such as advising Hidetora not to take refuge in the Third Castle.
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Ran / int_d04d13d0	type	Hemo Erotic
Ran / int_d04d13d0	comment	Hemo Erotic: In the scene where Lady Kaede seduces Jiro, she holds a knife to his neck and cuts him a couple of times. Then, after kissing him, she makes a point of licking the blood on his neck.
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Ran / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: And one short word, at that.
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Ran / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Ran / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Saburo, his most loyal son, gives Hidetora one when he decides to divide the domain in three parts.
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Ran / int_d41a6617	type	Wandering Walk of Madness
Ran / int_d41a6617	comment	Wandering Walk of Madness: Hidetora as the Third Castle burns; Jiro and his armies don't stop him or follow.
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Ran / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
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Ran / int_dc0d80ee	type	High-Pressure Blood
Ran / int_dc0d80ee	comment	High-Pressure Blood: Blood sprays all over the wall when Kaede is beheaded.
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Ran / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: After Saburo's exile, he and Lord Ayabe stay offscreen until the last twenty minutes of the film, where they invade Ichimonji grounds to save Hidetora. Literally with Jiro's arquebusiers, who kill Saburo at the end.
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Ran / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Ran / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Hidetora hits this - then goes crazy. Also at the end, after his son, Saburo gets shot, causing him to suffer a heart attack induced Death by Despair. Kyoami gets one from Hidetora's, and moans about how the King has become a fool and the fool has become the rational one.
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Ran / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Kyoami. His actor Pîtâ is openly gay.
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Ran / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Ran / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Saburo rebukes his father reasoning that Hidetora, a warlord who gained his power through perpetual violence, becomes worse than naive expecting a peaceful and harmonious coexistence between his heirs. It gets Saburo and Tango banned, but the predicament turns out to be a Cassandra Truth.
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Ran / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Ran / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: The battle scenes are remarkably brutal. The sack of the Third Castle inspired the aftermath of Omaha Beach in Saving Private Ryan.
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Ran / int_e993a60f	type	Defensive Feint Trap
Ran / int_e993a60f	comment	Defensive Feint Trap: During the final battle. Jiro and his men attack Saburo's men, only to find that the enemy they thought was watching from atop a hill is actually off storming the First Castle. Oops.
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Ran / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Ran / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Lady Kaede is cold and abrasive to just about everyone. Hidetora was also a cruel man pre-madness.
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Ran / int_eece5183	type	Have You Seen My God?
Ran / int_eece5183	comment	Have You Seen My God?: The film basically says that if there's a higher power, they're blind.
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Ran / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Ran / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Hidetora sees the error of his ways and the wisdom of Saburo's way of thinking in the end, but dies shortly thereafter.
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Ran / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Fire, confusion, dead bodies; war is not presented as glamorous in any way once it breaks out. The storming of the Third Castle is particularly hellish.
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Ran / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: Lady Kaede seeks to destroy the Ichimonji clan by manipulating three brothers into going to war with each other.
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Ran / int_f6e99f40	comment	Youngest Child Wins: Subverted. Saburo is assassinated just as he is happily reunited with Hidetora.
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Ran / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
Ran / int_f7cee9b	comment	Lady Kaede's mother after Hidetora took the First Castle; Hidetora's concubines during the attack on the Third Castle. In addition, Jiro, Kurogane, and Jiro's other main retainers presumably do so offscreen when the First Castle is about to be destroyed. Unless, of course, they get killed in the battle or emerge victorious on their Last Stand.
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Ran / int_f933e594	type	How the Mighty Have Fallen
Ran / int_f933e594	comment	How the Mighty Have Fallen: After the Third Castle falls, the mighty Hidetora is reduced to an insane fugitive who's barely aware of his surroundings.
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Ran / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Ran / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: Taro, Jiro and Saburo literally mean "first son," "second son" and "third son."
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