Ran

Ran

160 mins | Drama, Action, History | June 1, 1985

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.

Ran

160 mins | Drama, Action, History | June 1, 1985

Ran
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.
IMDb rating 8.2
Producers Toho Company, Ltd., Nippon Herald Films, Greenwich Film Productions, Herald Ace
Original title
Directors Ichiro Yamamoto, Okihiro Yoneda, Takashi Koizumi, Ishirō Honda, Bernard Cohn, Akira Kurosawa
Writers William Shakespeare, Masato Ide, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai

as Lord Hidetora Ichimonji

Akira Terao

as Taro Takatora Ichimonji

Jinpachi Nezu

as Jiro Masatora Ichimonji

Daisuke Ryû

as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji

Mieko Harada

as Lady Kaede

Yoshiko Miyazaki

as Lady Sue

Mansai Nomura

as Tsurumaru

Hisashi Igawa

as Shuri Kurogane

Shinnosuke Ikehata

as Kyoami

Masayuki Yui

as Tango Hirayama

Kazuo Katô

as Kageyu Ikoma

Norio Matsui

as Shumenosuke Ogura

Toshiya Ito

as Mondo Naganuma

Heihachiro Suzuki

as Fujimaki's General

Kenji Kodama

as Samon Shirane

Haruko Tôgô

as Kaede's lady in waiting

Reiko Nanjo

as Hideota's concubine

Tokie Kanda

as Sue's lady in waiting

Sawako Kochi

as Hidetora's concubine

Kumeko Otowa

as Sue's lady in waiting

Takeshi Katō

as Koyota Hatakeyama

Jun Tazaki

as Seiji Ayabe

Hitoshi Ueki

as Nobuhiro Fujimaki

Satoru Fukasaku

as (uncredited)

Susumu Terajima

as Foot soldier (uncredited)