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Synopsis
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.
Cinematic DNA
In terms of action films, I love Kurosawa's work. His historical epics, like Ran and Kagemusha, taught me a lot about how to handle large crowd scenes and dramatic scope.
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This Film Influenced
→ The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Films with Similar Themes
ambition and power · family betrayal · aging and mortality · chaos and war · redemption
