
Ran
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an ageing warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
- Year: 1985
- Country: Japan, France
- Genre: Action, Drama, History
- Studio: Nippon Herald Films, Greenwich Film Production, Herald Ace, Kurosawa Film Production
- Keyword: epic, assassination, kingdom, gun, greed, castle, heir to the throne, revenge, descent into madness, historical fiction, seppuku, inheritance fight, ruins, jidaigeki, historical drama, king lear, feudal japan, black widow, somber, hopelessness, dramatic, tragic
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryū, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki