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