
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 |
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Revenue | $11,859,533.00 |
Original Language | ja |
Popularity | 21.371 |
Directed By
Akira Kurosawa
Crew
Akira Kurosawa
Masato Hara
Hideo Oguni
Toru Takemitsu
Asakazu Nakai
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
Shôji Ueda
Takao Saitō
Serge Silberman
Daizaburo Harada
Katsumi Furukawa
Masato Ide
Hisao Kurosawa
Yoshirō Muraki
Bernard Cohn
Tsutomu Sakurai
Teruyo Nogami
Ishirō Honda
Takashi Koizumi
Okihiro Yoneda
Takeji Sano
Satoru Iseki
Ulrich Picard
Takashi Ōhashi
Hisao Kurosawa
Emi Wada
Jean-Marc Lentretien
Masayuki Motomochi
Shinobu Muraki
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)