Dreams
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1990-05-11
Runtime: 119 mins
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Spoken language: English, Français, 日本語
Genres: Fantasy, Drama
Original title: Dreams
Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures, Akira Kurosawa USA
Production Countries: United States of America, Japan
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
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