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📊 Film Specifications

Director Akira Kurosawa

Writer Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay), Hideo Oguni (Screenplay), William Shakespeare (Theatre Play), Masato Ide (Screenplay)

Original Title 乱

Release Date June 1, 1985

Runtime 160 min (2h 40m)

Country Japan, France

Language JA

Budget $12,000,000

Box Office $23,334,156

Studios Nippon Herald Films • Greenwich Film Production • Herald Ace

Ran (1985)

Name: Ran
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Released: 1985-06-01
Rating: 4.0

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

• Written by Akira Kurosawa , Hideo Oguni , William Shakespeare

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."

⭐ 4.0 / 5 (1,959 votes) ⏱️ 160 min 🎬 Action, Drama, History

Ratings Breakdown:

1,959 ratings

0.5 Stars 5.0 Stars

Synopsis

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

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