Akira Kurosawa’s Academy Award-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, RAN considers the disastrous consequences of Lord Hidetora Ichimonji’s (Tatsuya Nakadai) decision to split his kingdom among his three sons.

Forty years after its original release, Studiocanal decided to restore RAN in 4K in collaboration with the Japanese company Kadokawa. In 1985, the production of the original film was made possible thanks to a French-Japanese collaboration and 40 years later, Studiocanal and Kadokawa replicated this partnership to restore the film. RAN has been restored in 4K by the French laboratory Éclair, under Studiocanal's supervision. Based on an original negative, the majority of the restoration work was done manually, image by image. Color grading was approved by Masaharu Ueda, one of RAN’s three cinematographers and a close associate of Kurosawa's.