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.
Tatsuya Nakadai
Lord Hidetora Ichimonji
Akira Terao
Taro Takatora Ichimonji
Jinpachi Nezu
Jiro Masatora Ichimonji
Daisuke Ryū
Saburo Naotora Ichimonji
Mieko Harada
Lady Kaede
Yoshiko Miyazaki
Lady Sue
Mansai Nomura
Tsurumaru
Hisashi Igawa
Shuri Kurogane
Shinnosuke Ikehata
Kyoami
Masayuki Yui
Tango Hirayama
Kazuo Katō
Kageyu Ikoma
Norio Matsui
Shumenosuke Ogura
Toshiya Ito
Mondo Naganuma
Heihachiro Suzuki
Fujimaki's General
Kenji Kodama
Samon Shirane
Haruko Tōgō
Kaede's lady in waiting
Reiko Nanjo
Hideota's concubine
Tokie Kanda
Sue's lady in waiting
Sawako Kochi
Hidetora's concubine
Kumeko Otowa
Takeshi Katō
Koyota Hatakeyama
Jun Tazaki
Seiji Ayabe
Hitoshi Ueki
Nobuhiro Fujimaki
Takao Zushi
Yoshitaka Zushi
Tetsuo Yamashita
Akihiko Sugizaki
Masaaki Sasaki
Satoru Fukasaku
(uncredited)
Susumu Terajima
Foot soldier (uncredited)
Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
Masato Hara
Producer
Hideo Oguni
Toru Takemitsu
Original Music Composer
Asakazu Nakai
Director of Photography
Director
Editor
Shoji Ueda
Takao Saitō
Serge Silberman
Daizaburo Harada
Still Photographer
Katsumi Furukawa
Executive Producer
Hisao Kurosawa
Associate Producer
Yoshirō Muraki
Production Design
Bernard Cohn
Assistant Director
Tsutomu Sakurai
Unit Production Manager
Teruyo Nogami
Production Manager
Ishirō Honda
Takashi Koizumi
Okihiro Yoneda
Takeji Sano
Gaffer
Satoru Iseki
Ulrich Picard
Takashi Ōhashi
Production Coordinator
Emi Wada
Costume Design
Jean-Marc Lentretien
Sound mixer
Masayuki Motomochi
Shinobu Muraki
Storyboard Artist
William Shakespeare
Theatre Play
Shohichiro Meda
Makeup Artist
Chihako Naito
Noriko Takamizawa
Ichiro Yamamoto
Claude Villand
Production Sound Mixer
Fumio Yanoguchi
Sound Recordist
Makoto Sano
Electrician
Presenter
Masato Ide
Jiro Hirai
Set Decoration
Mitsuyuki Kimura
Yasuyoshi Ototake
Tsuneo Shimura
Osumi Tousho
Tameyuki Aimi
Yoshiko Matsumoto
Hairstylist
Noriko Sato
Shoshichiro Ueda
Seikichi Iizumi
Takayuki Goto
Sound Assistant
Sôichi Inoue
Takenori Misawa
Hideo Takeichi
Shotaro Yoshida
Anne Brav
Translator
Masahiko Kumada
Production Assistant
Ko Nauri
Takeo Suga
Accountant
Assistant Camera
Noburu Asono
Hidehiro Igarashi
Nobuyuki Kitô
Kosuke Matsushima
Masakazu Oka
Yoshinori Sekiguchi
Suzuki Mamoru
Shigeo Suzuki
Koji Choya
Yoshio Iyama
Koichi Kamata
Mutsuo Komine
Yuichi Oyama
Tetsuo Sawada
Shintaro Tazaki
Akira Fukuda
Wardrobe Assistant
Kazuko Numata
Noriko Taguchi
Hideto Aga
Assistant Editor
Hajime Ishihara
Ryûsuke Ôtsubo
Hiroyuki Iwaki
Conductor
