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Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan, where an aging warlord divides his kingdom among his three sons.
- Directors
- Akira Kurosawa
- Cast
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryū, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Mansai Nomura, Hisashi Igawa, Shinnosuke Ikehata, Masayuki Yui, Kazuo Katō, Norio Matsui, Toshiya Ito, Heihachiro Suzuki, Kenji Kodama, Haruko Tōgō, Reiko Nanjo, Tokie Kanda, Sawako Kochi, Kumeko Otowa
- Country
- Japan, France
- Genre
- Action, Drama, History
- Release date
- 1985-06-01
- Studios
- Nippon Herald Films, Greenwich Film Production, Herald Ace
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Akira Kurosawa's Ran transplants Shakespeare's King Lear to sixteenth-century Japan, where an aging warlord divides his kingdom among his three sons.
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