Ran
160 minutes,
France/Japan (1985), 15
Average user rating 
(4.7 / 21 votes)
(4.7 / 21 votes)
Kurosawa tackles Shakespeare in this epic Japanese retelling of King Lear
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Ran: Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa first adapted Shakespeare for the screen with Throne Of Blood in 1957, a masterful retelling of 'Macbeth' as a samurai drama. Twenty-eight years later, his eyesight failing and health deteriorating, Kurosawa announced his plans to adapt 'King Lear' as Ran...
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