Joao Ruas Ran Movie Poster Release By Black Dragon Press

Black Dragon Press are delighted to release brand new work from João Ruas celebrating Akira Kurosawa’s epic ‘RAN’. I must say these are some epic posters and so beautiful

For 'RAN' João Ruas has created three different images, one for each of Hidetora's sons: Jiro, Taro and Saburo; and each identifiable by their iconic banner colors. In Japanese culture red traditionally symbolizes violence, yellow is said to signify courage and blue represents calmness and purity. BDP like to think that João's posters echo these symbolic correlations as 'Taro' celebrates the warrior figure, 'Jiro' can be seen facing the long journey ahead, and 'Saburo' is a stripped down image, leaving out all elements extraneous to the art.

JIRO by João Ruas
24 x 36 inch hand-pulled screen print on 300gsm Somerset Satin paper
Hand Numbered. Gallery stamp on the reverse
Limited Edition of 60
£120 (inc. shipping)

TARO by João Ruas
27 x 36 inch hand-pulled screen print on 300gsm Somerset Satin paper
Hand Numbered. Gallery stamp on the reverse
Limited Edition of 40
£150 (inc. shipping)

SABURO by João Ruas
24 x 36 inch hand-pulled screen print on 300gsm Somerset Satin paper
Hand Numbered. Gallery stamp on the reverse
Timed Edition*
One random order will include an original Samurai drawing by João Ruas
£75

The final edition number will be the number of prints sold between Friday August 11th at 3pm BST and Monday August 14th at the same time, plus a small handful they will keep for special events. These prints will ship some time in September.

These will all go on sale this Friday 11 August at 3pm BST which is 10am EDT from www.blackdragonpress.co.uk.