Ran (1985)

Name: Ran
Released: 1985
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryū, Mieko Harada

• Movies, Action, Drama, History

• 160 min

8.0

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Casting: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryū, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Mansai Nomura, Hisashi Igawa, Shinnosuke Ikehata, Masayuki Yui, Kazuo Kato, Norio Matsui, Toshiya Ito, Heihachiro Suzuki, Kenji Kodama, Haruko Tōgō, Reiko Nanjo, Tokie Kanda, Sawako Kochi, Kumeko Otowa, Takeshi Katō, Jun Tazaki, Hitoshi Ueki, Takao Zushi, Yoshitaka Zushi, Tetsuo Yamashita, Akihiko Sugizaki, Masaaki Sasaki, Satoru Fukasaku, Susumu Terajima
Countries: Japan, France
Premiere: 1985-06-01
Status: Released

Tags: epic, assassination, kingdom, gun, greed, castle, heir to the throne, revenge, descent into madness, seppuku, inheritance fight, ruins, jidaigeki, king lear, feudal japan, black widow, hopelessness

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.