Ran Print
Mon 9 Jun

nfts passport to cinema

Japan/France | 1985 | col | 160 mins | dir. Akira Kurosawa, with Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao

Kurosawa's version of King Lear, transferred to feudal Japan, has an ageing warlord transferring his kingdom to his sons, only to face dispossession and the decline of the land into a bitter familial civil war.

Mon 9 Jun | 6.30pm | cert. 15



 
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