Japan | 1983 | Japanese with English Subtitles | Historical Drama | MAkira Kurosawa is one of cinema’s most vital and enduring directors. His late career masterpiece Ran draws on Shakespeare’s King Lear, transplanting it to feudal sixteenth-century Japan, where Kurosawa dissects the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.