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1985-06-01Shakespeare'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.

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.

Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
Tatsuya Nakadai

Taro Takatora Ichimonji
Akira Terao

Jiro Masatora Ichimonji
Jinpachi Nezu

Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Daisuke Ryū

Lady Kaede
Mieko Harada

Lady Sue
Yoshiko Miyazaki

Tsurumaru
Mansai Nomura

Shuri Kurogane
Hisashi Igawa

Kyoami
Shinnosuke Ikehata

Tango Hirayama
Masayuki Yui

Kageyu Ikoma
Kazuo Katō
Shumenosuke Ogura
Norio Matsui
Mondo Naganuma
Toshiya Ito
Fujimaki's General
Heihachiro Suzuki

Samon Shirane
Kenji Kodama

Kaede's lady in waiting
Haruko Tōgō

Hideota's concubine
Reiko Nanjo

Sue's lady in waiting
Tokie Kanda
Hidetora's concubine
Sawako Kochi

Sue's lady in waiting
Kumeko Otowa

Koyota Hatakeyama
Takeshi Katō

Seiji Ayabe
Jun Tazaki

Nobuhiro Fujimaki
Hitoshi Ueki

Takao Zushi

Yoshitaka Zushi
Tetsuo Yamashita
Akihiko Sugizaki
Masaaki Sasaki

(uncredited)
Satoru Fukasaku

Foot soldier (uncredited)
Susumu Terajima