Ran
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Production
Budget
$12 000 000
Revenue
$23 334 156
Director
Actors
Scenario
Masato Ide
Producer
Serge Silberman, Masato Hara, Katsumi Furukawa
Operator
Composer
Artist
Yoshirō Muraki, Shinobu Muraki
Audition
Editing
Short description
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
What's left behind the scenes
- For 10 years, Kurosawa sketched every frame of the future film. Ultimately, these drawings were published along with the screenplay for "Ran".
- The film's plot is partially based on Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear," and partially on samurai legends.
- 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.
- Approximately 1400 extras and 200 horses were involved in the filming, some of which were brought from the USA.
- 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.
- One of the film's scenes appears in the opening sequence of the game "Shogun: Total War".
- According to Kurosawa, his previous film 'Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior' (1980) was a rehearsal 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.
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