

01/06/1985
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.

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

Reiko Nanjo
as Hideota's concubine

Tokie Kanda
as Sue's lady in waiting

Sawako Kochi
as Hidetora's concubine

Kumeko Otowa
as Sue's lady in waiting

Takeshi Katō
as Koyota Hatakeyama

Jun Tazaki
as Seiji Ayabe

Hitoshi Ueki
as Nobuhiro Fujimaki

Takao Zushi
as

Yoshitaka Zushi
as

Tetsuo Yamashita
as

Akihiko Sugizaki
as

Masaaki Sasaki
as

Satoru Fukasaku
as (uncredited)

Susumu Terajima
as Foot soldier (uncredited)
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