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A Balasaur Score of 88 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes 96%, Metacritic 97/100. Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 100% of the 720 1980s action movies in this catalog. It runs long at 2h 40m. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Metacritic97/100
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
1,902 audience votes
Key crew
- Akira KurosawaDirector
- Akira KurosawaScreenplay
- Hideo OguniScreenplay
- Toru TakemitsuOriginal Music Composer
- Masato IdeScreenplay
Cast
- Tatsuya NakadaiLord Hidetora Ichimonji
- Akira TeraoTaro Takatora Ichimonji
- Jinpachi NezuJiro Masatora Ichimonji
- Daisuke RyūSaburo Naotora Ichimonji
- Mieko HaradaLady Kaede
- Yoshiko MiyazakiLady Sue
- Mansai NomuraTsurumaru
- Hisashi IgawaShuri Kurogane
- Shinnosuke IkehataKyoami
- Masayuki YuiTango Hirayama
- Kazuo KatōKageyu Ikoma
- Norio MatsuiShumenosuke Ogura
Stills
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Themes
assassinationkingdomgungreedcastlesiegeheir to the thronerevengedescent into madnesshistorical fictionperiod dramaseppuku
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