Ran

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.

Director: Akira Kurosawa, Bernard Cohn, Ichiro Yamamoto, Ishirō Honda, Okihiro Yoneda, Takashi Koizumi

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Cast: Akihiko Sugizaki, Akira Terao, Daisuke Ryū, Haruko Tōgō, Heihachiro Suzuki, Hisashi Igawa, Hitoshi Ueki, Jinpachi Nezu, Jun Tazaki, Kazuo Kato, Kenji Kodama, Kumeko Otowa