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#5,230 All-time worldwide
#44 1985 releases

Movie profile

Ran

1985 · 160 min · Nippon Herald Films

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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $23.3M
Budget $12.0M
Gross minus budget $11.3M
ROI 1.94x

Domestic gross

$11.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$11.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Ran ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #5,230 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1985 releases #44 Release-year chart position of 184 titles Ranked against movies released in 1985. Primary genre #1,607 Action of 2,939 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Ran (1985) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Ran (1985) earned a reported $23.3M worldwide against a reported $12.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $11.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.94x. In this database it currently ranks #5,230 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #44 among 1985 releases.

Worldwide gross
$23,334,156
Budget
$12,000,000
Gross minus budget
$11,334,156
ROI
1.94x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 1, 1985
Production
Nippon Herald Films, Greenwich Film Production, Herald Ace
Countries
JP, FR

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1985, Ran is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Drama, History title from Nippon Herald Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $23.3M, reported production budget is $12.0M, gross-minus-budget is $11.3M, ROI is 1.94x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,230 all-time in the current chart set and #44 among 1985 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.