"In a mad world, only the mad are sane." 01 June 1985 Drama, Action, History 160 mins
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.
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Tatsuya Nakadai as Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
Akira Terao as Taro Takatora Ichimonji
Jinpachi Nezu as Jiro Masatora Ichimonji
Daisuke Ryū as Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Mieko Harada as Lady Kaede
Yoshiko Miyazaki as Lady Sue
Mansai Nomura as Tsurumaru
Hisashi Igawa as Shuri Kurogane
Shinnosuke Ikehata as Kyoami
Masayuki Yui as Tango Hirayama
Kazuo Katō as Kageyu Ikoma
Norio Matsui as Shumenosuke Ogura
Toshiya Ito as Mondo Naganuma
Heihachiro Suzuki as Fujimaki's General
Kenji Kodama as Samon Shirane
Haruko Tōgō as Kaede's lady in waiting
Akira Kurosawa Director
Akira Kurosawa Screenplay
Hideo Oguni Screenplay
Masato Hara Producer
Serge Silberman Producer
Toru Takemitsu Original Music Composer
Asakazu Nakai Director of Photography
Takao Saitō Director of Photography
Shôji Ueda Director of Photography
Akira Kurosawa Editor
Daizaburo Harada Still Photographer
Katsumi Furukawa Executive Producer
Hisao Kurosawa Associate Producer
Shinobu Muraki Production Design
Yoshirō Muraki Production Design
Emi Wada Costume Design
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Argentina 16 January 1986
Australia 23 August 2021
Belgium 17 October 1985
Brazil 19 December 1986
Czech Republic 24 April 2008
Germany 10 April 1986
Denmark 10 October 1985
Spain 22 November 1985
Finland 07 March 1986
France 28 July 2021
United Kingdom 21 July 2025
Greece 04 September 2025
Hong Kong 04 May 2023
Hungary 28 August 1992
Ireland 21 October 1985
India 23 October 2010
Italy 07 March 1986
Japan 29 May 2009
Korea 01 April 2021
Netherlands 20 December 2008
Philippines 27 September 1988
Portugal 19 November 1986
Russia 13 November 2025
Sweden 15 November 1985
Thailand 21 December 2019
Turkey 15 February 1991
United States 23 May 2025
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02 April 1985
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24 August 1985
In a summer in Shonan village, Sumiko is the daughter of an important upper-class Shikishima family, she loves to paint pictures, is going through a cooling-off of an arranged marriage that did not work out.
11 January 1985
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21 November 1985
Rocky Balboa holds the world heavyweight championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union.
01 August 1985
Romantic comedy about a series of mix-ups. Brigitte Kaufmann wants to divorce her husband Jörg who is an engineer and chief executive of an electronics company – and a hopeless pedant.
29 August 1985
Close childhood friends Teresa (Nora Aunor) and Cholo (Tirso Cruz III) were separated from each other for a while.
12 April 1985
Two cosmonauts arrive on a barren world and begin a clean-up operation. In the course of their duties, they revive the planet’s civilisation and discover the real reason for its devastation- thermonuclear war.
31 December 1985
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