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.
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DIRECTOR
Akira Kurosawa
SCREENPLAY
Akira Kurosawa
Hideo Oguni
Masato Ide
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Asakazu Nakai
Shoji Ueda
Takao Saitō
EDITOR
Akira Kurosawa
ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSER
Tōru Takemitsu
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Shinobu Muraki
Yoshirō Muraki
PRODUCER
Masato Hara
Serge Silberman
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Katsumi Furukawa
ACCOUNTANT
Takeo Suga
ASSISTANT CAMERA
Hidehiro Igarashi
Kosuke Matsushima
Masakazu Oka
Noburu Asono
Nobuyuki Kitô
Shigeo Suzuki
Suzuki Mamoru
Takeo Suga
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Bernard Cohn
Ichiro Yamamoto
Ishirō Honda
Okihiro Yoneda
Takashi Koizumi
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Hajime Ishihara
Hideto Aga
Ryûsuke Ôtsubo
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Hisao Kurosawa
CONDUCTOR
Hiroyuki Iwaki
COSTUME DESIGN
Emi Wada
ELECTRICIAN
Koichi Kamata
Koji Choya
Makoto Sano
Mutsuo Komine
Shintaro Tazaki
Tetsuo Sawada
Yoshio Iyama
Yuichi Oyama
GAFFER
Takeji Sano
HAIRSTYLIST
Noriko Sato
Yoshiko Matsumoto
MAKEUP ARTIST
Chihako Naito
Noriko Takamizawa
Shohichiro Meda
Shoshichiro Ueda
Tameyuki Aimi
PRESENTER
Katsumi Furukawa
Serge Silberman
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Ko Nauri
Masahiko Kumada
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Hisao Kurosawa
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Satoru Iseki
Seikichi Iizumi
Takashi Ōhashi
Teruyo Nogami
Ulrich Picard
PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER
Claude Villand
SET DECORATION
Jiro Hirai
Mitsuyuki Kimura
Osumi Tousho
Tsuneo Shimura
Yasuyoshi Ototake
SOUND ASSISTANT
Hideo Takeichi
Sôichi Inoue
Takayuki Goto
Takenori Misawa
SOUND MIXER
Jean-Marc Lentretien
SOUND RECORDIST
Fumio Yanoguchi
Shotaro Yoshida
STILL PHOTOGRAPHER
Daizaburo Harada
STORYBOARD ARTIST
Akira Kurosawa
THEATRE PLAY
William Shakespeare
TRANSLATOR
Anne Brav
UNIT PRODUCTION MANAGER
Masayuki Motomochi
Tsutomu Sakurai
WARDROBE ASSISTANT
Akira Fukuda
Kazuko Numata
Noriko Taguchi
Academy Awards
1986Winner: Best Costume Design
Nominee: Best Cinematography
Nominee: Best Production Design
Nominee: Best Director
Amanda Award For Best Foreign Feature Film
1986Winner: Amanda Award For Best Foreign Feature Film