8.1 / 10
(1,477 votes)
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
Japan,
France
Action,
Drama,
History
160 minutes
1985
Akira Kurosawa
Nippon Herald Films,
Greenwich Film Production,
Herald Ace,
TOHO
$11,500,005
$11,859,533
2003
6.1
1962
8.4
1999
5.8
2016
6.0
1936
7.5
2007
7.6
2014
7.4
1982
7.5
1990
7.7
1994
6.2
2006
7.5
1995
7.9
2002
6.3
1974
8.6
1990
7.4
2003
7.2
2005
6.7
1991
7.6
2004
6.5
1988
7.0