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Dreams - Yume (1990)
IMDb Rating 7.6
Front Cover Actor Back Cover
Akira Terao "I"
Martin Scorsese Vincent Van Gogh [Crows]
Mitsunori Isaki "I" as a Boy [The Peach Orchard]
Chishu Ryu 103-year-old Man [Village Of The Watermills]
Mieko Harada The Snow Fairy [The Blizzard]
Yoshitaka Zushi Pvt. Noguchi [The Tunnel]
Mitsuko Baisho Mother of "I" [Sunshine Through The Rain]
Chosuke Ikariya The Demon [The Weeping Demon]
Hisashi Igawa Power Station Worker [Mt. Fuji In Red]
Toshihiko Nakano "I" as a Young Child [Sunshine Through The Rain]
Toshie Negishi Mother carrying child
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 Fantasy; Foreign
Director Akira Kurosawa; Ishirô Honda
Producer Hisao Kurosawa; Mikey Y. Inoue
Writer Ishirô Honda; Akira Kurosawa
Studio Warner Bros.
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Audience Rating PG
Running Time 120 mins
Movie Release Date 8/24/1990
Color Color
Personal Details
Format DVD
Seen It Yes
Index 264
Collection Status In Collection
Purchase Date 5/25/2004
Product Details
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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