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Ran

“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”

Director
Akira Kurosawa
Year
1985
Runtime
2h 40m
Rated
R
Release
1985
Language
ja
Country
JP

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01 · Overview

What it’s about

The story

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.

  • #tragic
  • #assassination
  • #inheritance fight
  • #historical drama
  • #black widow
  • #heir to the throne
  • #king lear
  • #hopelessness
  • #ruins
  • #feudal japan
  • #historical fiction
  • #gun

  • Directed by

    Akira Kurosawa

  • Written by

    Akira Kurosawa & Hideo Oguni & Masato Ide

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