In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
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.
epic
assassination
kingdom
gun
greed
castle
heir to the throne
revenge
descent into madness
seppuku
inheritance fight
ruins
king lear
feudal japan
black widow
hopelessness