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Dreams (1990)

Dreams (1990)

Drama Fantasy

The past, present, and future. The thoughts and images of one man... for all men. One man's dreams... for every dreamer.

Release Date: 1990, May 11
Directors: Akira Kurosawa
Countries: Japan, United States of America
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Kurosawa Production, Akira Kurosawa USA
Cast: Mitsunori Isaki, Hisashi Igawa, Mieko Harada, Akira Terao, Masayuki Yui, Chishū Ryū, Toshie Negishi, Mitsuko Baisho, Shû Nakajima, Yoshitaka Zushi, Tetsuo Yamashita, Toshihiko Nakano

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

dream world ambivalent familiar complicated volcano magic realism kids life and death artist anthology catastrophe mount fuji, japan nuclear power plant