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Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an ageing warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Mieko Harada
Lady Kaede
Tatsuya Nakadai
Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
Susumu Terajima
Foot soldier (uncredited)
Daisuke Ryū
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Shinnosuke Ikehata
Kyoami
Jun Tazaki
Seiji Ayabe
Yoshiko Miyazaki
Lady Sue
Akira Terao
Taro Takatora Ichimonji
Jinpachi Nezu
Jiro Masatora Ichimonji
Hisashi Igawa
Shuri Kurogane
Mansai Nomura
Tsurumaru
Takeshi Katō
Koyota Hatakeyama
Yoshitaka Zushi
Reiko Nanjo
Hideota's concubine
Hitoshi Ueki
Nobuhiro Fujimaki
Kumeko Otowa
Sue's lady in waiting
Haruko Tōgō
Kaede's lady in waiting
Kenji Kodama
Samon Shirane
Kazuo Katō
Kageyu Ikoma
Masayuki Yui
Tango Hirayama
Takao Zushi
Satoru Fukasaku
(uncredited)
Tokie Kanda
Sue's lady in waiting
Norio Matsui
Shumenosuke Ogura
Toshiya Ito
Mondo Naganuma
Heihachiro Suzuki
Fujimaki's General
Sawako Kochi
Hidetora's concubine
Tetsuo Yamashita
Akihiko Sugizaki
Masaaki Sasaki
Masahiko Kumada

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