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Summary: 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.
Release Date: June 01, 1985
Director:
Akira Kurosawa
Runtime: 2 h 42 min
MPAA: R
Distributor: Orion Classics, CBS/Fox, StudioCanal, The Criterion Collection, Rialto Pictures, Wellspring Media
Movie budget: $ 11,500,000
Domestic: $ 4,135,750
International: $ 28,533
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