RAN - CRITERION COLLECTION (1985)

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• Release Year: 1985
• Genre: Action, Martial Arts
• Plot: With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa re-imagines Shakespeare’s tragic King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Tatsuya Nakadai stars as Lord Hidetora, a warlord who cedes authority over his vast dominion to his eldest son, setting off a familial power struggle for control of the kingdom. Majestic in scope, Ran is a visual masterpiece in which Kurosawa contrasts the immensity of war with the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
• Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Hisashi Igawa, Pîtâ, Masayuki Yui, Kazuo Katô, Norio Matsui, Toshiya Ito, Kenji Kodama, Takashi Watanabe, Mansai Nomura, Takeshi Katô, Jun Tazaki, Hitoshi Ueki, Seizô Katô, Tokie Kanda, Sawako Kochi, Reiko Nanjo, Kumeko Otowa, Heihachiro Suzuki, Susumu Terajima, Haruko Tôgô, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide, Masato Hara, Serge Silberman, Hisao Kurosawa, Asakazu Nakai, Takao Saitô, Masaharu Ueda, Toru Takemitsu, Claude Villand, Fumio Yanoguchi, Shôtarô Yoshida
• Director: Akira Kurosawa
• Runtime: 2:43
• Company: Greenwich Film Production S.A. Paris, Herald Ace Inc., Nippon Herald Films, Inc., StudioCanal Image, Wellspring, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie