by Ned Lannamann
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I wasn't able to watch the new 4K restoration of Ran on a big screen, but I feel comfortable recommending you pay money to see it all the same—even watching the Vimeo-hosted press screener on a laptop was fairly awe-inspiring. Ran's title roughly translates to "chaos," and Akira Kurosawa's masterful riff on Shakespeare's King Lear has become a pillar in the lexicon of cinema since its release in 1985.