Ran

8

Japan

Action Drama History

160 min

1985

Tatsuya Nakadai Reiko Nanjo Tokie Kanda Kumeko Otowa Takeshi Katō Jun Tazaki Hitoshi Ueki Takao Zushi Yoshitaka Zushi Satoru Fukasaku Haruko Tōgō Kenji Kodama Kazuo Katō Akira Terao Jinpachi Nezu Daisuke Ryū Mieko Harada Yoshiko Miyazaki Mansai Nomura Hisashi Igawa Shinnosuke Ikehata Masayuki Yui Susumu Terajima

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.