{"id":202066,"date":"2025-06-21T08:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202066\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T08:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:25:09","slug":"the-best-war-film-of-all-time-is-available-to-stream-on-amazon-prime-films-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202066\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘best’ war film of all time is available to stream on Amazon Prime | Films | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forty years on from its release,\u00a0war film<\/a> Ran continues to prove popular among movie enthusiasts and is available on the British Film Institute\u2019s streaming service as well as Amazon Prime<\/a> Video.<\/p>\n

The film, which has been labelled by Vulture<\/a> as \u201cthe greatest war movie ever made\u201d in its latest ranking, came out in 1985 and was years in the making.<\/p>\n

Shakespeare\u2019s King Lear tale is woven into the film\u2019s story, which is inspired by the life of the 16th-century feudal ruler Mori Motonari.<\/p>\n

Ran\u2019s IMDb\u2019s synopsis reads: \u201cIn 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is a story of one man\u2019s horrifying regret and his tragic end where a rush of reflection leads to humbling even the proudest of people.<\/p>\n

The film stars Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ry\u00fb and was directed by Akira Kurosawa.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

As well as this, he faced issues with his eyesight and then during filming he lost his wife to cancer.<\/p>\n

Kurosawa poured a huge amount of himself into the film and it became a massive technical accomplishment.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Ran also made it onto Esquire\u2019s best war films ever made list and made it to number 19 on Rotten Tomatoes\u2019 100 Best War Movies of All Time with a 95% audience score.<\/p>\n

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 the “no doubt the best film of 1985” – high praise, indeed.<\/p>\n

Ran is available on the BFI streaming platform and Amazon Prime Video – but Neflix fans will be left disappointed as it is not currently available on there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forty years on from its release,\u00a0war film Ran continues to prove popular among movie enthusiasts and is available…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[1641,77,19401,498,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-202066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-amazon-prime","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-films-section","11":"tag-hollywood","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114720403178715184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}