Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
夢
Japan • 1990 • 1h 59m
Director
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Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
Synopsis
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
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Credits
Crew
DirectorAkira Kurosawa
WriterAkira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda
CinematographerTakao Saitō, Shôji Ueda
ComposerShinichiro Ikebe
EditorTome Minami
ProducerMike Y. Inoue, Hisao Kurosawa, Seikichi Iizumi
Cast
Akira Teraoas I
Mitsuko Baishoas Mother of 'I'