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.
Rated R | Length 160 minutes
Susumu Terajima | Pîtâ | Masayuki Yui | Jun Tazaki | Toshiya Ito | Tatsuya Nakadai | Akira Terao | Jinpachi Nezu | Daisuke Ryû | Takeshi Katô | Mieko Harada | Hisashi Igawa | Yoshitaka Zushi | Haruko Tôgô | Tetsuo Yamashita | Mansai Nomura | Yoshiko Miyazaki | Kazuo Katô | Kenji Kodama | Hitoshi Ueki | Takao Zushi | Kumeko Otowa | Masaaki Sasaki | Akihiko Sugizaki | Norio Matsui | Tokie Kanda | Sawako Kochi | Reiko Nanjo | Heihachiro Suzuki | Satoru Fukasaku