Title | Ran -blu |
Year | 1985 |
Time | 160 mins |
Genre | Action; Drama; Foreign; War |
Director | Akira Kurosawa |
Edition | |
Format | Blu-ray Disc |
Actor | Tatsuya Nakadai as Lord Hidetora Ichimonji; Akira Terao as Taro Takatora Ichimonji; Masayuki Yui as Tango Hirayama; Yoshiko Miyazaki as Lady Su�; Hisashi Igawa as Shuri Kurogane; Jinpachi Nezu as Jiro Masatora Ichimonji; Daisuke Ryu as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji; Mieko Harada as Lady Kaede; Kazuo Kato as Kageyu Ikoma |
Rating | R (Restricted) |
Cinematography | Takao Sait�; Masaharu Ueda; Asakazu Nakai |
Language | Japanese |
Plot | 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. |
Producer | Masato Hara; Serge Silberman |
Writer | Akira Kurosawa; William Shakespeare |
Subtitles | English; French; Spanish |