Film

Ran

8.019852h 40mMAction Drama History

Age rating: M
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Year: 1985

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

Top cast

Tatsuya Nakadai

Lord Hidetora Ichimonji

Akira Terao

Taro Takatora Ichimonji

Jinpachi Nezu

Jiro Masatora Ichimonji

Daisuke Ryū

Saburo Naotora Ichimonji

Mieko Harada

Lady Kaede

Yoshiko Miyazaki

Lady Sue

Mansai Nomura

Tsurumaru

Hisashi Igawa

Shuri Kurogane

Shinnosuke Ikehata

Kyoami

Masayuki Yui

Tango Hirayama

Kazuo Katō

Kageyu Ikoma

Norio Matsui

Shumenosuke Ogura

Toshiya Ito

Mondo Naganuma

Heihachiro Suzuki

Fujimaki's General

Kenji Kodama

Samon Shirane

Haruko Tōgō

Kaede's lady in waiting

Reiko Nanjo

Hideota's concubine

Tokie Kanda

Sue's lady in waiting

Directed by

Akira Kurosawa

Written by

Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni

Produced by

Masato Hara, Serge Silberman