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乱 · 1985

Ran

«In a mad world, only the mad are sane.»

Akira Kurosawa · 160 min · Japan

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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.

TMDB

8.0

IMDb

8.2

RT

96%

Metacritic

97/100

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Budget
US$12,000,000
Worldwide revenue
US$23,334,156
Profit
US$11,334,156
Box office (US)
$4,314,927
Awards
Won 1 Oscar. 30 wins & 23 nominations total
Production companies
Nippon Herald Films, Greenwich Film Production, Herald Ace

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Japón
Setting
Japón

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