Akira Kurosawa's Dreams with Akira Terao: DVD Cover

    Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
    a.k.a. Dreams, I Saw a Dream Like This, Konna Yume wo Mita, Yume Director: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Mitsunori Isaki, Chishu Ryu

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    • DVD Release Date: 03/18/2003
    • Original Release: 1990
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 11,405

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    Features

    Closed Caption; Interactive menus; Director film highlights; Scene access; Languages: Japanese; Subtitles: English, Français, Español, Portugués, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, & Korean

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Credits [2:00]
    2. Sunshine Through the Rain: A Warning [1:26]
    3. Sunshine Through the Rain: Foxes Procession [5:24]
    4. Sunshine Through the Rain: "They Don't Usually Forgive" [2:50]
    5. Sunshine Through the Rain: Along the Rainbow [1:05]
    6. The Peach Orchid: Mysterious Girl [2:41]
    7. The Peach Orchid: Spirits of the Trees [3:19]
    8. The Peach Orchid: Dance of the Dolls [4:38]
    9. The Peach Orchid: A Reminder [2:14]
    10. The Blizzard: Weary Climbers [5:32]
    11. The Blizzard: Storm Rages [4:58]
    12. The Blizzard: Snow Fairy [4:28]
    13. The Blizzard: Storm Subsides [4:01]
    14. The Tunnel: Snarling Sentinel [4:06]
    15. The Tunnel: Private Noguchi [5:57]
    16. The Tunnel: Commander's Address [7:37]
    17. The Tunnel: Sentinel Returns [:34]
    18. Crows: Into the Canvas [3:44]
    19. Crows: Vincent Van Gogh [3:33]
    20. Crows: Artist's Journey [2:01]
    21. Crows: Taking Wing [:56]
    22. Mount Fuji in Red: Cataclysm [2:33]
    23. Mount Fuji in Red: Death's Calling Card [5:06]
    24. The Weeping Demon: Horned Demon [5:09]
    25. The Weeping Demon: Floral Mutations [8:23]
    26. The Weeping Demon: Valley of Torment [3:55]
    27. Village of the Watermills: Arrival in the Village [1:42]
    28. Village of the Watermills: Old Man [6:37]
    29. Village of the Watermills: Funeral Procession [6:50]
    30. Village of the Watermills: Gift From Nature [1:50]
    31. End Credits [4:06]

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    Editorial Reviews

    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, All Movie Guide

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    Akira Kurosawa's Dreamsby Anonymous

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    May 27, 2003: I first watched Dreams when I was about 14 years old and I remember I was delighted - not only by what I saw in pictures, but also by the whole mood that took me. One of the most beautiful movies I`ve ever seen, compared to other great filmdirectors - it is maybe the most beautiful, in it`s most precious way. The last scene at the river explains life just as it is. Who saw it, knows what I`m talking about.

    Akira Kurosawa's Dreamsby Anonymous

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    April 03, 2003: This is probably the hardest film that I could ever try to review. Visually stunning, many of Kurosawa's artistic dreams and political nightmares come to life. At times, it lacks subtlety and Kurosawa resorts to preaching from his soapbox, but at least he does so in one instance tongue-in-cheek. In any case, it is not his finest film, but definitely the most intriguing. The music and images will stick with me even if I'm not sure what the sum total of Kurosawa's Dreams (and dreams) amounts to.


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