| Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Akira Terao |
"I"
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| Martin Scorsese |
Vincent Van Gogh [Crows]
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| Mitsunori Isaki |
"I" as a Boy [The Peach Orchard]
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| Chishu Ryu |
103-year-old Man [Village Of The Watermills]
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| Mieko Harada |
The Snow Fairy [The Blizzard]
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| Yoshitaka Zushi |
Pvt. Noguchi [The Tunnel]
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| Mitsuko Baisho |
Mother of "I" [Sunshine Through The Rain]
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| Chosuke Ikariya |
The Demon [The Weeping Demon]
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| Hisashi Igawa |
Power Station Worker [Mt. Fuji In Red]
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| Toshihiko Nakano |
"I" as a Young Child [Sunshine Through The Rain]
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| Toshie Negishi |
Mother carrying child
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| Plot |
| Following up on his critically acclaimed, blood-splattered epic Ran, master director Akira Kurosawa looks inward with this collection of eight brightly colored dreams. The first section centers on a young boy (Mitsunori Izaki), who witnesses a forest wedding procession of fox spirits in spite of his mother's (Mitsuko Baisho) warning. The second section concerns the same lad who converses with peach-tree spirits after the trees have been cruelly cut down. This is followed by a party of mountain climbers struggling to make it back to base camp in the midst of a terrible blizzard. The fourth dream deals with a man (Akira Terao) — a Kurosawa stand-in complete with the director's trademark floppy white hat — who encounters ghosts of Japan's militaristic past in a forlorn tunnel. In the following dream, the same man ventures into a Van Gogh painting called The Crows and meets the artist himself (Martin Scorsese). The sixth and seventh dreams venture into nightmare territory — one deals with a nuclear meltdown that threatens Japan while the other concerns post-nuclear mutants. In the final dream, Kurosawa meets a 103-year-old man (played by Ozu regular Chishu Ryu) in a utopian rural village. — Jonathan Crow |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Drama; Fantasy; Foreign Film |
| Director |
Akira Kurosawa; Ishirô Honda |
| Producer |
Mikey Y. Inoue; Hisao Kurosawa; Seikichi Iizumi; Mike Y. Inoue |
| Writer |
Akira Kurosawa; Ishirô Honda |
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| Studio |
Warner Brothers |
| Country |
USA
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
NR |
| Running Time |
120 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
1990 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
46 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Location |
Disc 59 |
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| Product Details |
| Edition |
Sub |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Single Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
085392366026 |
| Chapters |
31 |
| Release Date |
2/10/2004 |
| Subtitles |
Chinese; English; French; Japanese; Korean; Portuguese; Spanish; Thai |
| Packaging |
Snap Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 JAPANESE: Dolby Digital Stereo |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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Interactive Menus
Director Film Highlights
Scene Access
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