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Certificate 15

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai Akira Terao Jinpachi Nezu

Directors Akira Kurosawa

Screenwriters Akira Kurosawa Hideo Oguni

Running Time 160 minutes

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Kurosawa's take on King Lear.

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Plot
A Japanese warlord coming to the end of his days, decides to divide his kingdom up between his three sons. But his youngest thinks him mad, and that his plan will lead to bloodshed, and soon enough the older brothers have taken up arms against one another.

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