A feudal warlord abdicates, planning to divide his territory between his three sons - despite the youngest warning him of the danger he faces. Undaunted, he drives his loyal child away, leaving the two older brothers to plunge the realm into a devastating civil war. Akira Kurosawa's historical epic, based on Shakespeare's King Lear, starring Tatsuya Nakadai and Akira Terao. In Japanese.

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.