History Awesome / Ran

* [[spoiler: Kurogane pulls off his second SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when he [[EvenEvilHasStandards slays Lady Kaede]] after finding out she successfully had [[ThePollyanna Lady Sué]] assassinated.]]

* [[spoiler: Despite being the story's villain, who gets beheaded at the end, Lady Kaede is a walking moment of awesome. A victim of Hidetora, who lost her family and ancestral home to his conquests and was forcefully married to his son, when opportunity presents itself she seizes the chance to get her revenge at him, playing his sons like a fiddle. At the end she is even content to die after confessing everything, as the whole Ichimonji clan is dead, and their lands ravaged by the war she caused.]]

* [[spoiler: While villain, who gets beheaded at end, Lady Kaede is a walking moment of awesome. A victim of Hidetaro's, who lost her family and ancestral home to his conquests, when opportunity presents itself she seizes chance to get her revenge at him, playing his sons like fiddle. At end she is even content to die, as whole Ichimonji clan is dead, their lands ravaged by war she caused.]]

* Saburo's commander is like Kurogane in that he knows how to wage war. Unlike Kurogane he isn't ignored so Saburo's much smaller army falls back into the woods and keep shooting down Jiro's larger forces without losing a single man.

* Old man Hidetora, at his age, kills a soldier with a bow and arrow. As we see in the opening, he can also still perform archery on horseback.
* The attack on the Third Castle. A [[WarIsHell horrifically staged]], [[SceneryPorn horrifyingly beautiful]] sequence.

* {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}: As it is an Creator/{{Akira Kurosawa}} film, several are to be expected.
** Kurogane magnificently one ups Lady Kaede with a thinly veiled {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}.
** Saburo's {{Calling the Old Man Out}} moment during the beginning. Particularly when he subverts {{The Sons and The Spears}} trope to emphasize the fallibility of Hidetora's plan.
** [[spoiler: Kurogane pulls off his second {{Moment of Awesome}} when he [[EvenEvilHasStandards slays Lady Kaede]] after finding out she successfully had [[ThePollyanna Lady Sué]] assassinated.]]
** Old man Hidetora, at his age, kills a soldier with a bow and arrow. As we see in the opening, he can also still perform archery on horseback.

** Old man Hidetora, at his age, kills a soldier with a bow and arrow. As we see in the opening, he can also still perform archery on horseback.

* {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}: As it is an {{Akira Kurosawa}} film, several are to be expected.

** Old man Hidetora, at his age, kills a soldier with a bow and arrow.