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Plot
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings, a soldier’s ghosts, Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s bond with nature.
- Directors
- Akira Kurosawa
- Cast
- Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada, Mitsunori Isaki, Toshihiko Nakano, Yoshitaka Zushi, Hisashi Igawa, Chosuke Ikariya, Chishū Ryū, Martin Scorsese, Masayuki Yui, Tetsuo Yamashita, Misato Tate, Catherine Cadou, Mieko Suzuki, Ryûjirô Oki, Masaaki Sasaki, Motohiro Toriki, Shû Nakajima
- Country
- Japan, United States of America
- Genre
- Fantasy, Drama
- Release date
- 1990-05-11
- Studios
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Kurosawa Production, Akira Kurosawa USA
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Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams presents eight visually striking vignettes inspired by the director’s own dreams. Among them: a fox wedding, a vanished orchard, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s paintings, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia. These episodes reflect on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy relationship with nature.
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