Overview
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
Details
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writer
- Masato Ide
- Original Language
- Japanese
- Budget
- $11,500,005
Cast
Akira Terao
Daisuke Ry?
Hisashi Igawa
Jinpachi Nezu
Mansai Nomura
Masayuki Yui
Mieko Harada
Shinnosuke Ikehata
Tatsuya Nakadai
Yoshiko Miyazaki
Keywords
assassination
black widow
castle
descent into madness
dramatic
epic
feudal japan
greed
gun
heir to the throne
hopelessness
inheritance fight
jidaigeki
king lear
kingdom
revenge
ruins
seppuku
somber
tragic
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