Which Japanese war movie is the best in your opinion? Why?

My personal favorite Japanese war film is "Ran". This 1985 old film was directed by Akira Kurosawa and has a Douban score of 8.8. The film has won numerous awards at major international film festivals. At the 58th Academy Awards, "Chaos" received 4 nominations for Best Director, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Costume Design, and ultimately successfully won the Best Costume Design Award.

The film is inspired by Shakespeare's play. The story takes place in Japan during the Warring States Period. The history is true, but the story is fictional. The grand war scenes also made "Ran" the most expensive movie in Japan at the time, with a whopping 2.4 billion yen.

The movie alone has nearly 1,400 extras, more than 200 horses, and 1,400 pairs of armor. In order to perfectly express the scene of the burning city, the film crew built a city in real life and burned it to the ground.

The film tells the story of the alienation of family ties in the struggle for power. During the Warring States Period, the princes of a small country were brutal and unbridled, and occupied large areas of land by killing.

The old Ichimonji Hidetora decided to entrust the land and give each of his three sons a city. However, the younger son was not satisfied with the enfeoffment and was expelled.

The eldest son and the second son, who had divided up their father's land, gradually developed discord and dissatisfaction. The father was driven away, and the two sons turned against each other. Tragedies were staged one after another.

The younger son, who knew what had happened to his father, led a group of people to attack him, but was eventually shot to death. The Ichimonji Hidetora clan, who have a great family and great business, constantly violated human ethics under the temptation of power, and finally ended up in "the vast white land is so clean", which is both regrettable and seemingly destined.

We often joke that the wars in Japan during the Warring States Period were all fights between villages. In the film, the number of participants in the war was not large, but the various strategies were used just right, and the scene layout was very spectacular. Kurosawa Akira with 75 At such an advanced age and nearly blind, he drew storyboards and designed details himself, which shows the master's love for movies.

The costumes and photography are also a highlight of the movie. The use of long lenses and carefully designed compositions make the whole movie look very exquisite.