Ran
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Production year1985
French release18/09/1985
Runtime2 h 40 min
Synopsis
Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three sons. In his dotage, he falls prey to the false flattery of his treacherous sons (Akira Terao and Jinpachi Nezu), while banishing his youngest son (Daisuke Ryu), the only member of the family who loves him enough to tell him the unvarnished truth. Thanks to his foolish pride, his domain collapses under its own weight as the sons battle each other over total control.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (4)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Greenwich Film Productions
- Foreign production companies : Kadokawa Corporation, Herald Ace
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : Acteurs Auteurs Associés (AAA)
Full credits (7)
- Executive Producer : Serge Silberman
- Screenwriters : Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide
- Director of Photography : Takao Saito
- Music Composer : Toru Takemitsu
- Assistant Director : Bernard Cohn
- Author of original work : William Shakespeare
- Production Manager : Ully Pickardt
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : War
- Production language : Japanese
- Coproducer countries : Japan (65.0%), France (35.0%)
- Original French-language productions : No
