Dreams (Akira Kurosawa's Dreams)
- Original title
- Yume (Dreams) (Akira Kurosawa's Dreams)
- Year
- 1990
- Running time
- 120 min.
- Country
- Japan
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Martin Scorsese
- Akira Terao
- Mitsuko Baisho
- Mieko Harada
- Toshie Negishi
- Mitsunori Isaki
- Toshihiko Nakano
- Yoshitaka Zushi
- Hisashi Igawa
- Chosuke Ikariya
- Chishu Ryu
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Japan-United States;
Distributor: Warner Bros.- Genre
- Fantasy. Drama | Magic Realism. Nuclear Holocaust. Painting. Anthology Film
- Synopsis
- Akira Kurosawa's Dreams comprises eight dream sequences, featuring impressive special effects and beautiful scenery from Japan. Kurosawa's dream sequences are elusive, metaphoric and influenced by Japanese legends, reflecting in some way impressions from his own life. In the sequence entitled 'Crows' Martin Scorsese stars as Vincent Van Gogh in a wheat field resembling one of the artist's paintings. Another dream sequence explores Kurosawa's fear of nuclear devastation, while others capture moments of magic such as a young boy who sees peach trees dancing around him. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams is the work of a mature cinematic genius.
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1990: Golden Globes: Nominated to Best Foreign Language Film1990: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film1990: Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection (Out of Competition)1991: Premios de la Academia Japonesa: Best Music. 8 nominations
- Critics' reviews
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"In the uneven career of Akira Kurosawa, two limiting factors were sentimentality and preachiness, and both come to the fore in this 1990 collection of eight dreams."
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"A collection of short, sometimes fragmentary films that are less like dreams than fairy tales of past, present and future. The magical and mysterious are mixed with the practical, funny and polemical."
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"'Dreams' will knock your eyes out without ignoring the mind and heart."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 53 My Favorite Japanese Movies (38)
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