Ran

1985 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa

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.

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Cast: Yoshiko Miyazaki, Tatsuya Nakadai, Mieko Harada, Takeshi Katō, Susumu Terajima, Shinnosuke Ikehata, Hisashi Igawa, Daisuke Ryû, Mansai Nomura, Akira Terao

Rating: 8.064/10 from 1,201 votes