The daughter of a wealthy family rebels when her father remarries and she becomes a leader of a girl gang. She hatches a plot to use her stepmother to get a large sum of money by pretending to be kidnapped. But the tables are turned when gangsters intervene and capture them both. They are subjected to various humiliations and sexual perversions.

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.