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7
Drama. War A reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three sons. In his dotage, he falls prey to the false flattery of his treacherous sons (Akira Terao and Jinpachi Nezu), while banishing his youngest son (Daisuke Ryu), the only member of the family who loves him enough to tell him the ... [+]
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February 6, 2012
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Akira Kurosawa adapta al Japón medieval la obra de William Shakespeare 'El rey Lear'; Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) es un señor de la guerra que ha amasado poder y riqueza gracias a su despiadada capacidad bélica en el campo de batalla; cuando, ya con 70 años, comienza a sentirse fatigado, decide ceder el control de sus dominios al mayor de sus hijos, Taro, mientras que el resto de su descendencia (el segundo en edad, Jiro, y el menor, Saburo) deberán servir al primero.
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