Criterion Discontinues Kurosawa’s Ran on DVD, Blu-ray Release Canceled (Blogcritics.org)
The popular video label loses the rights to the Japanese classic. Well, I’m sorry to say that there’s some bad news for the fans of the Criterion Collection: the previously-released two-disc edition of director Akira Kurosawa’s classic Ran is being discontinued due to rights issues. Sadly, this problem also means that the upcoming Blu-ray release of the Japanese-language classic will no longer…
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