JAPAN · 1985

Ran

Akira Kurosawa
Japanese Golden Age ambition and power family betrayal aging and mortality chaos and war redemption
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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.

Year1985
CountryJapan
DirectorAkira Kurosawa
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Cinema DNA 9 films · 5 countries
Ran Japan · 1985
9 films it shaped
  1. Hero 2002 · Zhang Yimou China
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  3. Red Cliff 2008 · John Woo Hong Kong
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  5. The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 · Wes Anderson United States
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