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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Film Cast:

• Lord Hidetora Ichimonji: Tatsuya Nakadai
• Taro Takatora Ichimonji: Akira Terao
• Jiro Masatora Ichimonji: Jinpachi Nezu
• Saburo Naotora Ichimonji: Daisuke Ryû
• Lady Kaede: Mieko Harada
• Lady Sue: Yoshiko Miyazaki
• Tsurumaru: Mansai Nomura
• Shuri Kurogane: Hisashi Igawa
• Kyoami: Shinnosuke Ikehata
• Tango Hirayama: Masayuki Yui
• Kageyu Ikoma: Kazuo Katô
• Shumenosuke Ogura: Norio Matsui
• Mondo Naganuma: Toshiya Ito
• Fujimaki’s General: Heihachiro Suzuki
• Samon Shirane: Kenji Kodama
• Kaede’s lady in waiting: Haruko Tôgô
• Hideota’s concubine: Reiko Nanjo
• Sue’s lady in waiting: Tokie Kanda
• Hidetora’s concubine: Sawako Kochi
• Sue’s lady in waiting: Kumeko Otowa
• Koyota Hatakeyama: Takeshi Katō
• Seiji Ayabe: Jun Tazaki
• Nobuhiro Fujimaki: Hitoshi Ueki
• …: Takao Zushi
• …: Yoshitaka Zushi
• …: Tetsuo Yamashita
• …: Akihiko Sugizaki
• …: Masaaki Sasaki
• (uncredited): Satoru Fukasaku
• Foot soldier (uncredited): Susumu Terajima

Film Crew:

• Editor: Akira Kurosawa
• Screenplay: Hideo Oguni
• Writer: William Shakespeare
• Assistant Director: Ishirō Honda
• Costume Design: Emi Wada
• Production Design: Yoshirô Muraki
• Director of Photography: Asakazu Nakai
• Writer: Masato Ide
• Producer: Serge Silberman
• Mix Technician: Claude Villand
• Production Manager: Ulrich Picard
• Original Music Composer: Toru Takemitsu
• Production Manager: Satoru Iseki
• Producer: Masato Hara
• Director of Photography: Takao Saitō
• Director of Photography: Shôji Ueda
• Production Coordinator: Hisao Kurosawa
• Assistant Director: Takashi Koizumi
• Executive Producer: Katsumi Furukawa
• Production Manager: Teruyo Nogami
• Assistant Director: Okihiro Yoneda
• Production Manager: Takashi Ōhashi
• Unit Production Manager: Tsutomu Sakurai
• Unit Production Manager: Masayuki Motomochi
• Production Design: Shinobu Muraki
• Sound mixer: Jean-Marc Lentretien
• Assistant Director: Bernard Cohn
• Sound Recordist: Fumio Yanoguchi
• Gaffer: Takeji Sano
• Assistant Director: Ichiro Yamamoto

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