Poster from TMDB
Film · TMDB
7.7Eight 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.
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
- volcano
- nuclear power plant
- anthology
- magic realism
- dream world
- catastrophe
- kids
- mount fuji, japan
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Ratings
IMDb
7.7/10
31,366 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
67%
- Year
- 1990
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- 3 wins & 12 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written by
- Akira Kurosawa
- Produced by
- Hisao Kurosawa Mike Y. Inoue
- Starring
- Akira Terao Mitsuko Baisho Toshie Negishi Mieko Harada Chishu Ryu Martin Scorsese
- Cinematography
- Takao Saito Shoji Ueda
- Edited by
- Tome Minami
- Music by
- Shinichiro Ikebe
- Production company
- Akira Kurosawa USA
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release dates
- May 10, 1990 ( 1990-05-10 ) ( Cannes ) May 25, 1990 ( 1990-05-25 ) (Japan) August 24, 1990 ( 1990-08-24 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 119 minutes
- Countries
- Japan United States
- Language
- Japanese
- Budget
- ¥1.5 billion ( $12 million )
- Box office
- $3 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 119
- FilmAffinity ID
- 377578
Show 4 more facts
- publication date
- 1990-08-24
- title
- 夢
- review score
- 67%
- capital cost
- 1500000000
Sources (10)
via Wikidata · CC0
~24 min read
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.