JAPAN · 1985

Ran

Akira Kurosawa
Japanese Golden Age ambition and power family betrayal aging and mortality chaos and war redemption
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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.

Year1985
CountryJapan
DirectorAkira Kurosawa
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RanJapan · 1985
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