Project Author: David Mills

June 23, 2025

PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
Nippon Herald Films, Greenwich Film Production, Herald Ace, Kurosawa Film Production

Ran

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

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Genre:

Action, Drama, History

Runtime:

160

Released:

1985

Rating:

8.1

Budget:

$12,000,000

Box Office:

$23,334,156

WRITERS

Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa, William Shakespeare, Masato Ide

FILM OVERVIEW

Ran

Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an ageing warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

DIRECTOR

Akira Kurosawa

GALLERY

PRODUCTION TEAM

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Takao Saitō (Director of Photography)

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Shôji Ueda (Director of Photography)

Hideo Oguni (Screenplay)

Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay)

Akira Kurosawa (Editor)

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Masato Hara (Producer)

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Asakazu Nakai (Director of Photography)

Serge Silberman (Producer)

Akira Kurosawa (Director)

Toru Takemitsu (Original Music Composer)

CAST MEMBERS

Tatsuya Nakadai

Akira Terao

Jinpachi Nezu

Daisuke Ryū

Mieko Harada

Yoshiko Miyazaki

Mansai Nomura

Hisashi Igawa

Shinnosuke Ikehata

Masayuki Yui

MORE PRODUCTION

Daizaburo Harada (Still Photographer), Hisao Kurosawa (Associate Producer), Katsumi Furukawa (Executive Producer), Teruyo Nogami (Production Manager), Bernard Cohn (Assistant Director), Ishirō Honda (Assistant Director), Shinobu Muraki (Production Design), Jean-Marc Lentretien (Sound mixer), Takashi Koizumi (Assistant Director), Emi Wada (Costume Design), Satoru Iseki (Production Manager), Masayuki Motomochi (Unit Production Manager), Tsutomu Sakurai (Unit Production Manager), Ulrich Picard (Production Manager), Okihiro Yoneda (Assistant Director), Takeji Sano (Gaffer), Hisao Kurosawa (Production Coordinator), Yoshirō Muraki (Production Design), Takashi Ōhashi (Production Manager), Akira Kurosawa (Storyboard Artist), William Shakespeare (Theatre Play), Shohichiro Meda (Makeup Artist), Chihako Naito (Makeup Artist), Noriko Takamizawa (Makeup Artist), Ichiro Yamamoto (Assistant Director), Claude Villand (Production Sound Mixer), Fumio Yanoguchi (Sound Recordist), Makoto Sano (Electrician), Serge Silberman (Presenter), Katsumi Furukawa (Presenter), Masato Ide (Screenplay), Jiro Hirai (Set Decoration), Mitsuyuki Kimura (Set Decoration), Yasuyoshi Ototake (Set Decoration), Tsuneo Shimura (Set Decoration), Osumi Tousho (Set Decoration), Tameyuki Aimi (Makeup Artist), Yoshiko Matsumoto (Hairstylist), Noriko Sato (Hairstylist), Shoshichiro Ueda (Makeup Artist), Seikichi Iizumi (Production Manager), Takayuki Goto (Sound Assistant), Sôichi Inoue (Sound Assistant), Takenori Misawa (Sound Assistant), Hideo Takeichi (Sound Assistant), Shotaro Yoshida (Sound Recordist), Anne Brav (Translator), Masahiko Kumada (Production Assistant), Ko Nauri (Production Assistant), Takeo Suga (Accountant), Takeo Suga (Assistant Camera), Noburu Asono (Assistant Camera), Hidehiro Igarashi (Assistant Camera), Nobuyuki Kitô (Assistant Camera), Kosuke Matsushima (Assistant Camera), Masakazu Oka (Assistant Camera), Yoshinori Sekiguchi (Assistant Camera), Suzuki Mamoru (Assistant Camera), Shigeo Suzuki (Assistant Camera), Koji Choya (Electrician), Yoshio Iyama (Electrician), Koichi Kamata (Electrician), Mutsuo Komine (Electrician), Yuichi Oyama (Electrician), Tetsuo Sawada (Electrician), Shintaro Tazaki (Electrician), Akira Fukuda (Wardrobe Assistant), Kazuko Numata (Wardrobe Assistant), Noriko Taguchi (Wardrobe Assistant), Hideto Aga (Assistant Editor), Hajime Ishihara (Assistant Editor), Ryûsuke Ôtsubo (Assistant Editor), Hiroyuki Iwaki (Conductor)

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'Ran'

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