Ran (Original title)Chaos (Alternative title)

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Date: 1985 (Copyright)

Countries: France, Japan

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Synopsis: Japanese set version of Shakespear's King Lear.

Genre: Drama

Subjects: King Lear (play), Sons, Mental disorders

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Releases
Date: April 1986Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - Sound - DolbyRuntime: 160 mins Length: 14435 FeetDialogue (original): Japanese / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: Virgin
Date: November 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 155 mins Dialogue (original): Japanese / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

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©/Production Company: Greenwich Film Production, Production Company: Herald Ace, Production Company: Nippon Herald Films, Executive Producer: Katsumi Furukawa, Producer: Serge Silberman, Producer: Masato Hara, Production Manager: Ully Pickardt, Production Administrator: Satoru Izeki, Production Administrator: Seikichi Iizumi, Teruyo Nogami, Collaborating Production Administrator: Takashi Ohashi, Production Co-ordinator: Hisao Kurosawa, Production Assistant: Masahiko Kumada, Production Assistant: Ko Nanri, Directorial Consultant: Ishiro Honda, Assistant Director: Fumiaki Okada, Assistant Director: Bernard Cohn, Assistant Director: Takashi Koizumi, Assistant Director: Ichirô Yamamoto, Assistant Director: Okihiro Yoneda, Assistant Director: Kyoko Watanabe, Assistant Director: Vittorio Dalle Ore, Assistant Director: Kunio Nozaki, Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Screenplay: Hideo Oguni, Screenplay: Masato Ide, [Based on the play 'King Lear' by]: William Shakespeare, Director of Photography: Takao Saito, Director of Photography: Masaharu Ueda, Collaborating Photographer: Asakazu Nakai, Lighting: Takeharu Sano, Assistant Photographer: Yoshinori Sekiguchi, Assistant Photographer: Noboru Asono, Assistant Photographer: Kiyoshi Anzai, Assistant Photographer: Satoru Suzuki, Assistant Photographer: Shigeo Suzuki, Assistant Photographer: Mazakazu Oka, Assistant Photographer: Kosuke Matsushima, Assistant Photographer: Hidero Igarashi, Assistant Photographer: Nobuyuki Kito, Stills Photography: Daisaburo Harada, Stills Photography: Yoshio Sato, [Editor]: Akira Kurosawa, Production Designer: Yoshiro Muraki, Production Designer: Shinobu Muraki, Set Decorator: Tsuneo Shimura, Set Decorator: Osami Tonsho, Set Decorator: Mitsuyuki Kimura, Set Decorator: Jiro Hirai, Set Decorator: Yasuyoshi Ototake, Wardrobe Design: Emi Wada, Make-up: Yamada Katsura, Make-up: Tameyuki Aimi, Make-up: Chihako Naito, Make-up: Noriko Takamizawa, Make-up: Shohichiro Ueda, Hair: Yoshiko Matsumoto, Hair: Noriko Sato, Titles: Den Film Effect, Titles: Les Films Michel François, Music: Toru Takemitsu, Music Performed by: Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Hiroyuki Iwaki, Sound Recording: Fumio Yanoguchi, Sound Recording: Shotaro Yoshida, Sound Re-recording: Claude Villand, Battle Consultant: Koichi Hito, Ryu Kuze, Kyogen Master: Mansaku Nomura, Armature Props: Masamori Minami, Publicity: Benjamin Baltimore

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Tatsuya Nakadai (Lord Hidetora Ichimonji), Akira Terao (Taro Takatora Ichimonji), Jinpachi Nezu (Jiro Masatora Ichimonji), Daisuke Ryu (Saburo Naotora Ichimonji), Mieko Harada (Lady Kaede), Yoshiko Miyazaki (Lady Sué), Kazuo Kato (Kageyu Ikoma), Pîtâ (Kyoami), Hitoshi Ueki (Nobuhiro Fujimaki), Jun Tazaki (Seiji Ayabe), Norio Matsui (Shumenosuke Ogura), Hisashi Igawa (Shuri Kurogane), Kenji Kodama (Samon Shirane), Toshiya Ito (Mondo Naganuma), Takeshi Kato (Koyata Hatakeyama), Takeshi Nomura (Tsurumaru), Masayuki Yui (Tango Hirayama), Heihachiro Suzuki (Fujimaki's general), Reiko Nanjo, Sawako Kochi (Hidetora's concubine), Haruko Togo (Kaede's old lady), Tokie Kanda, Kumeko Otowa (Sué's lady-in-waiting)

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