Ran
ActionDramaHistory
8/10
|JP
|ja
|160 min
Release Date: 1985-06-01
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
Nippon Herald FilmsGreenwich Film ProductionHerald Ace
User Reviews
Filipe Manuel Neto
7/10
**A good film, full of detail and historical verisimilitude, but painfully long without needing to be.** I've already seen two of Akira Kurosawa's most renowned films and, quite frankly, I still can't understand why this Japanese director is so commonly considered a cinematic genius. His films are quite good, they're meticulous, there's a lot of attention to detail, but they're not particularly...
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