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Ran

film by Kurosawa [1985]

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discussed in biography

In Kurosawa Akira: Later works of Kurosawa Akira
Kurosawa’s next film, Ran (1985; “Chaos”), was an even more successful samurai epic. An adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear set in 16th-century Japan, the film uses sons instead of daughters as the aging monarch’s ungrateful children. Ran was acclaimed as one of Kurosawa’s greatest films in the grandeur…
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Honda

In Honda Ishirō
…five films, including the acclaimed Ran (1985). In addition to movies, Honda directed for television in the 1960s and ’70s.
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