MOVIE · 1985
Ran
ActionAdventureDramaWar162 min
Hidetora Ichimonji, an aging warlord, decides to divide his domain among his three sons, a choice that turns a ruling family into a battlefield. Tatsuya Nakadai is Hidetora, proud and increasingly fragile as old loyalties give way to rivalry, while Akira Terao's eldest son tries to hold power inside a court shaped by fear and revenge. In sixteenth-century Japan, Akira Kurosawa reworks King Lear through castle sieges, formal ritual, and the collapse of a clan that once conquered by force.
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