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The 'best' war film of all time is available to watch on Amazon Prime

amedpostBy amedpostJuly 27, 2025 Entertainment No Comments2 Mins Read
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Forty years on from its release, war film Ran continues to prove popular among movie enthusiasts and is available on the British Film Institute’s streaming service as well as Amazon Prime Video.

The film, which has been labelled by Vulture as “the greatest war movie ever made” in its latest ranking, came out in 1985 and was years in the making.

Shakespeare’s King Lear tale is woven into the film’s story, which is inspired by the life of the 16th-century feudal ruler Mori Motonari.

Ran’s IMDb’s synopsis reads: “In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other…and him.”

It is a story of one man’s horrifying regret and his tragic end where a rush of reflection leads to humbling even the proudest of people.

The film stars Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû and was directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Kurosawa spent years developing the project and faced difficulty with funding it, which would then go on to become a big success and the most expensive Japanese movie ever made at that point.

As well as this, he faced issues with his eyesight and then during filming he lost his wife to cancer.

Kurosawa poured a huge amount of himself into the film and it became a massive technical accomplishment.

In Japanese, Ran is translated to Chaos and this film can certainly be described as that. The film features armies of extras, massive sets were burned to the ground to depict the happenings.

Ran also made it onto Esquire’s best war films ever made list and made it to number 19 on Rotten Tomatoes’ 100 Best War Movies of All Time with a 95% audience score.

It won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1986 and picked up two BAFTA awards among many other accolades. it was even described as “no doubt the best film of 1985” – high praise, indeed.

Ran is available on the BFI streaming platform and Amazon Prime Video.

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