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Ran (1985)

★ 8.0 · 1,799 ratings on TMDB

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Ran poster★ 8.0

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.

DirectorAkira Kurosawa
CastAkira Terao, Daisuke Ryū, Hisashi Igawa, Jinpachi Nezu, Mansai Nomura, Masayuki Yui
GenresAction, Drama, History
The emergence reading

Ran keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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