Ran

Ran (乱) Film Poster Country Directed by Akira Kurosawa Release Date 1985 Language Japanese Studio Toho Distributor Toho Company Main Cast Character Actor Kurogane Hisashi Igawa Lord Hidetora Ichimonji Tatsuya Nakadai

Ran is a 1985 epic written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. An adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, it was Kurosawa's final epic, and epic it was, requiring the services of 1400 extras, 200 horses, and at $12 million, was the most expensive Japanese film to date. It would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Costume Design at the 58th Academy Awards.

The following guns were used in the film Ran (1985):

Tanegashima

Various soldiers in the armies of Jiro, Taro, and Saburo are armed with Tanegashima muskets.

Japanese "Tanegashima" matchlock arquebus.

One of Hidetora's bodyguards fires at the attackers.

Jiro's troops fire upon Hidetora's citadel.

Kurogane (Hisashi Igawa) with a tanegashima after shooting Taro.

Saburo's troops fire on Jiro's cavalry.