http://www.criterionconfessions.com/2010/04/ran-316.html
stillness, silence, hell, redemption
KING LEAR AND CINEMATIC APPROPRIATION: KOZINTSEV'S KOROL LEAR AND KUROSAWA'S RAN
https://harvest.usask.ca/handle/10388/11664
Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XVII
By Mark Thornton Burnett, Courtney Lehmann, Marguerite Rippy, Ramona Wray
https://books.google.al/books?id=tU0QAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=kyoami+snake&source=bl&ots=FTk3HzaFMX&sig=ACfU3U0KfLTngk6hN0aakHX24t-gVJa3qg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjeldTOoMTwAhUQy4UKHVZ1DCAQ6AEwEXoECAgQAw#v=onepage&q=kyoami%20snake&f=false
Chapter 3 - Wicked Humans and Weeping Buddhas: (Post)humanism and Hell in Kurosawa’s Ran
https://books.google.al/books?id=btGoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=Wicked+Humans+and+Weeping+Buddhas&source=bl&ots=NdPVAtWHdt&sig=ACfU3U3MdWmNFPKOq-nd_z1_DsyCoG6Ewg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj00OH5kcnwAhVLXRoKHc5eBLoQ6AEwEXoECBQQAw#v=onepage&q=Wicked%20Humans%20and%20Weeping%20Buddhas&f=false