Ran poster
Screenplay Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Masato Ide

Ran

Original Title:

Tagline: In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Release Date: 1985-06-01

Duration: 160 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Tatsuya Nakadai
    Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
  • Shinnosuke Ikehata
    Kyoami
  • Mieko Harada
    Lady Kaede
  • Yoshiko Miyazaki
    Lady Sue
  • Mansai Nomura
    Tsurumaru
  • Masayuki Yui
    Tango Hirayama
  • Daisuke Ryū
    Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
  • Hisashi Igawa
    Shuri Kurogane
  • Haruko Tōgō
    Kaede's lady in waiting
  • Susumu Terajima
    Foot soldier (uncredited)