What type of media are both Ran and A.K.?
Ran (film) Ran (乱, Japanese for "chaos") is a 1985 period tragedy directed, edited and co-written by Akira Kurosawa as an adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear". It is a Japanese-French venture produced by Herald Ace, Nippon Herald Films and Greenwich Film Productions. The film stars Tatsuya Nakadai as Hidetora Ichimonji, an aging "Sengoku"-era warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favor of his three sons. The film is an adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy "King Lear", and includes segments based on legends of the "daimyō" Mōri Motonari.
Wild Arms (series) Wild Arms (ワイルドアームズ , Wairudo Āmuzu ) , also known by the title "Wild ARMs", is a media franchise developed by Media.Vision and owned by Sony Computer Entertainment. The franchise spawns several Western-themed role-playing video games and related media. Since the launch of the original "Wild Arms" title in 1996, the series has gone on to encompass several media, including toys, manga, mobile phone applications, and a 22-episode anime. "Wild Arms" remains noteworthy in the computer and video game industry as being one of the few role-playing series to adopt an American Old West motif. Characters, settings, and music within the series contain visual and audio cues to American westerns, as well as traditional fantasy and science fiction elements.