Part of the “Enter the Samurai” Film Series sponsored by U-M Center for Japanese Studies.

Akira Kurosawa co-wrote, directed, and edited this adaptation of Shakespeare’s KING LEAR-considered by some to be his “last great masterpiece.” In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other…and him.
Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.