Ran

乱 (1985)

Timing: 2:40 (160 min)

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All about film

Video 6

Photo 144

Actors and characters

Release date

1985-06-01

Country

Japan, France

Production

TOHO, Nippon Herald Films, Greenwich Film Production, Herald Ace

Genre

Action, Drama, History

Budget

$12 000 000

Revenue

$23 334 156

Website

https://www.rialtopictures.com/catalogue/ran

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Actors

Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryū, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Mansai Nomura, Hisashi Igawa, Shinnosuke Ikehata, Masayuki Yui
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Masato Ide

Producer

Serge Silberman, Masato Hara, Katsumi Furukawa

Operator

Asakazu Nakai

Composer

Toru Takemitsu

Artist

Audition

Editing

Akira Kurosawa
All team (77)

• Several hundred costumes for the film were handmade. This laborious process took two years. The design of the warriors' clothing was developed by the film's director, Akira Kurosawa.
• The castle, destroyed in the middle of the film, was specially built on the slope of Mount Fuji and then burned down.
• According to Kurosawa, his previous film 'Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior' (1980) was a rehearsal for 'Ran'.
• For 10 years, Kurosawa sketched every frame of the future film. Ultimately, these drawings were published along with the screenplay for "Ran".
• By the time filming began, Kurosawa was nearly blind, so he had to construct each shot with the help of assistants, for whom the director's sketches served as a guide.
• The film's plot is partially based on Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear," and partially on samurai legends.
• Approximately 1400 extras and 200 horses were involved in the filming, some of which were brought from the USA.
• Kurosawa's wife, Yoko Yaguchi, who was 64 years old at the time, died during the filming of this movie. Kurosawa interrupted work for only one day of mourning.
• One of the film's scenes appears in the opening sequence of the game "Shogun: Total War".