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An aging warlord divides his kingdom among his three sons, unleashing a catastrophic civil war across sixteenth-century Japan in this reimagining of King Lear.
Why watch: The most expensive Japanese film ever made at the time. Kurosawa spent a decade preparing his King Lear.
Cast
Tatsuya Nakadai as Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
Akira Terao as Taro Takatora Ichimonji
Jinpachi Nezu as Jiro Masatora Ichimonji
Daisuke Ryū as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Mieko Harada as Lady Kaede
Yoshiko Miyazaki as Lady Sue
Mansai Nomura as Tsurumaru
Hisashi Igawa as Shuri Kurogane
Shinnosuke Ikehata as Kyoami
Masayuki Yui as Tango Hirayama
Kazuo Katō as Kageyu Ikoma
Norio Matsui as Shumenosuke Ogura
Toshiya Ito as Mondo Naganuma
Heihachiro Suzuki as Fujimaki's General
Kenji Kodama as Samon Shirane
Crew
Akira Kurosawa — Director
Hideo Oguni — Screenplay
Akira Kurosawa — Screenplay
Masato Ide — Screenplay
Masato Hara — Producer
Serge Silberman — Producer
Katsumi Furukawa — Executive Producer
Takao Saitō — Director of Photography
Shoji Ueda — Director of Photography
Asakazu Nakai — Director of Photography
Akira Kurosawa — Editor
Shinobu Muraki — Production Design
Yoshirō Muraki — Production Design
Emi Wada — Costume Design
Toru Takemitsu — Original Music Composer
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