This unique historical epic set in 16th-century Japan, directed by the renowned Akira Kurosawa, reinterprets Shakespeare's King Lear. The film is Kurosawa's late-life masterwork, sweeping in scope and examining the folly of war and the disintegration of a family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable hunger for power.
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This unique historical epic set in 16th-century Japan, directed by the renowned Akira Kurosawa, reinterprets Shakespeare's King Lear. The film is Kurosawa's late-life masterwork, sweeping in scope and examining the folly of war and the disintegration of a family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable hunger for power.
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