 In "Ran", the thematic study in cinematography and content of "nature" and the "natural" are revisited numerous times from the starting scene depicting expansive clouds to the closing scene depicting a sole figure filmed against an expansive landscape.The "unnatural", or the word ""Ran"" translated as chaos or the "disordered", occurs in the thematically recurrent scenes of warfare and nihilism depicted throughout the film.In analogy to Shakespeare, Kurosawa reflects a debate in Shakespeare's time about what human nature and nature really were like.