Ran

By changing Shakespeare’s daughters to sons, Kurosawa removes from his fable the possibility of feminine importance and sympathy: there is no counterpart of Cordelia, nor any real equivalent of Lear and Cordelia’s reconciliation.

...it is the entirety of its achievement, the sheer monumental size of the production, both physically and in the strikes of its drama that seize you so tightly.

It literally shakes your psyche and leaves you gasping in your seat, speechless for hours afterward.