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Following the division of Hidetora's lands between his remaining two sons, Taro's wife, Lady Kaede, still bitter about Hidetora killing her family and taking their land, successfully urges him to usurp control of the entire Ichimonji clan.
Kurogane (Hisashi Igawa) confronts Lady Kaede (Mieko Harada), to the dismay of Jiro (Jinpachi Nezu)
Ran (1985) by Akira Kurosawa, Clip: Lady Kaede speaks... Literature Today - and Yesterday... Based on King lear, here Lady Kaede manipulates her husband (Taro) to seize control of the...
Ran: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû. In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons.
Lady Kaede is rightfully thought of as an equivalent to Lady Macbeth/Lady Asaji in Throne of Blood, particularly in the way she urges Taro to humiliate his father, but I find her fascinating in her own right. Many women were in her position during Sengoku and early Tokugawa/Edo Japan.
Lady Kaede (Mieko Harada) accuses Lord Jiro (Jinpachi Nezu) of orchestrating the killing of her husband, Lord Taro.RAN (1985) is considered Akira Kurosawa's ...
Lady Kaede, who could easily be compared to Lady Washizu in Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, is the strongest female character of any Kurosawa film. Though she is fueled by revenge and her feelings towards the Ichimonji clan are clearly justified, her character remains an evil one in comparison to the female character on the opposite side of the ...
