Ran
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.
Director: Akira Kurosawa, Bernard Cohn, Ichiro Yamamoto, Ishirō Honda, Okihiro Yoneda, Takashi Koizumi
Actors: Akira Terao, Daisuke Ryû, Hisashi Igawa, Jinpachi Nezu, Kazuo Katô, Masayuki Yui, Mieko Harada, Pîtâ, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoshiko Miyazaki
Country: Japan, France