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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