
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an ageing warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
Ran is a Japanese movie of 14,749 characters, with 1,921 unique words and 848 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,921 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.