Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 160 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan, France
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- assassination
- kingdom
- gun
- greed
- castle
- siege
- heir to the throne
- revenge
- descent into madness
- historical fiction
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tatsuya Nakadai
Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
Akira Terao
Taro Takatora Ichimonji
Jinpachi Nezu
Jiro Masatora Ichimonji
Daisuke Ryū
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
- Mieko Harada — Lady Kaede
- Yoshiko Miyazaki — Lady Sue
- Mansai Nomura — Tsurumaru
- Hisashi Igawa — Shuri Kurogane
- Shinnosuke Ikehata — Kyoami
- Masayuki Yui — Tango Hirayama
- Kazuo Katō — Kageyu Ikoma
- Norio Matsui — Shumenosuke Ogura
- Toshiya Ito — Mondo Naganuma
- Heihachiro Suzuki — Fujimaki's General
- Kenji Kodama — Samon Shirane
- Directed
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written
- Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide, Akira Kurosawa
Production
- Rating
- 8.0 / 10 · 1,900 ratings
- Studio
- Nippon Herald Films, Greenwich Film Production, Herald Ace
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
