Key Details
Release StatusReleased
Release Date1985-06-01
Languageja
Runtime2h 40m
Budget$12,000,000
Revenue$23,334,156
Production
Nippon Herald Films, Greenwich Film Production, Herald Ace
Overview
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.
Principal Cast
31 credited
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