Ran (1985)
Overview
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.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $11,500,005.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $11,859,533.00 |
| Original Language | ja |
| Popularity | 14.662 |
Directed By
Akira Kurosawa
Crew
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
Hideo Oguni
Masato Hara
Serge Silberman
Toru Takemitsu
Asakazu Nakai
Takao Saitō
Shôji Ueda
Akira Kurosawa
Daizaburo Harada
Masato Ide
Katsumi Furukawa
Hisao Kurosawa
Shinobu Muraki
Yoshirō Muraki
Emi Wada
Satoru Iseki
Masayuki Motomochi
Teruyo Nogami
Ulrich Picard
Tsutomu Sakurai
Takashi Ōhashi
Bernard Cohn
Ishirō Honda
Takashi Koizumi
Okihiro Yoneda
Jean-Marc Lentretien
Takeji Sano
Hisao Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
William Shakespeare
Shohichiro Meda
Chihako Naito
Noriko Takamizawa
Ichiro Yamamoto
Claude Villand
Fumio Yanoguchi
Makoto Sano
TOP CAST
Tatsuya Nakadai
Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
Akira Terao
Taro Takatora Ichimonji
Jinpachi Nezu
Jiro Masatora Ichimonji
Daisuke Ryū
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Mieko Harada
Lady Kaede
Yoshiko Miyazaki
Lady Sue
Mansai Nomura
Tsurumaru
Hisashi Igawa
Shuri Kurogane
Shinnosuke Ikehata
Kyoami
Masayuki Yui
Tango Hirayama
Kazuo Kato
Kageyu Ikoma
Norio Matsui
Shumenosuke Ogura
Toshiya Ito
Mondo Naganuma
Heihachiro Suzuki
Fujimaki's General
Kenji Kodama
Samon Shirane
Haruko Tōgō
Kaede's lady in waiting
Reiko Nanjo
Hideota's concubine
Tokie Kanda
Sue's lady in waiting
Sawako Kochi
Hidetora's concubine
Kumeko Otowa
Sue's lady in waiting
Takeshi Katō
Koyota Hatakeyama
Jun Tazaki
Seiji Ayabe
Hitoshi Ueki
Nobuhiro Fujimaki
Satoru Fukasaku
(uncredited)
Susumu Terajima
Foot soldier (uncredited)
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