Dreams

Also known as Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

1990 film by Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda

Film · TMDB

7.7

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.

Released: 1990-05-11119 minDir: Akira KurosawaFantasy, DramaBudget: $12.0MBox office: $3.0M

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Cast

Akira Terao as I
Mitsuko Baisho as Mother of 'I'
Toshie Negishi as Mother carrying child
Mieko Harada as The Snow Fairy
Mitsunori Isaki as Young I
Toshihiko Nakano as Child I

Themes

life and death
artist

Article

Dreams (Japanese: 夢, Hepburn: Yume), also known as Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, is a 1990 magical realist anthology film of eight vignettes written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. Inspired by actual recurring dreams that Kurosawa had, it stars Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Chishū Ryū, Mieko Harada and Mitsuko Baisho. It was the director's first film in 45 years in which he was the sole author of the screenplay. An international co-production of Japan and the United States, Dreams was made five years after Ran, with assistance from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, and funded by Warner Bros. The film was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, and has consistently received positive reviews.

Dreams addresses themes such as childhood, spirituality, art, death, and mistakes and transgressions made by humans against nature.