Plot
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.
Cast
as Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
as Taro Takatora Ichimonji
as Jiro Masatora Ichimonji
as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
as Lady Kaede
as Lady Sue
as Tsurumaru
as Shuri Kurogane
as Kyoami
as Tango Hirayama
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Reviews
**A good film, full of detail and historical verisimilitude, but painfully long without needing to be.** I've already seen two of Akira Kurosawa's most renowned films and, quite frankly, I still can't understand why this Japanese director is so commonly considered a cinematic genius. His films are quite good, they're meticulous, there's a lot of attention to detail, but they're not particularl…