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.
Akira Kurosawa | Screenplay |
Masato Hara | Producer |
Hideo Oguni | Screenplay |
Toru Takemitsu | Original Music Composer |
Asakazu Nakai | Director of Photography |
Akira Kurosawa | Director |
Akira Kurosawa | Editor |
Shôji Ueda | Director of Photography |
Takao Saitō | Director of Photography |
Serge Silberman | Producer |