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.
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû, Mieko Harada
Producer: Akira Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, William Shakespeare
IMDb Score: 8.1/10 by 723 users
Runtime: 160 minutes
Released: 6/1/1985