Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)

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NR | 2 hr | Drama, Fantasy | Released: 8/24/1990

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Synopsis:

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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Full Cast & Crew

Theatrical Release
8/24/1990

Director	Credit
Akira Kurosawa	Director
Cast	Credit
Fujio Tokita	[Village Of The Watermills]
Mie Suzuki	"I's" Sister [The Peach Orchard]
Yuji Sawayama	[Village Of The Watermills]
Shoichiro Sakata	[Village Of The Watermills]
Masayuki Yui	Member of climbing team [The Blizzard]
Naoto Shigemizu	[Village Of The Watermills]
Osamu Yayama	[Village Of The Watermills]
Toshiya Ito	[Village Of The Watermills]
Shizuka Isami	[Village Of The Watermills]
Sachio Sakai	[Village Of The Watermills]
Reiko Nanao	[Village Of The Watermills]
Takashi Odajima	[Village Of The Watermills]
Toshie Negishi	Child-carrying Mother [Mt. Fuji In Red]
Akisato Yamada	[Village Of The Watermills]
Haruko Togo	[Village Of The Watermills]
Tetsu Watanabe	[Village Of The Watermills]
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]
Production Credits	Credit
Seikichi Iizumi	Associate Producer
Mike Y. Inoue	Co-Producer
Hisao Kurosawa	Co-Producer
Art Department	Credit
Koichi Hamamura	Set Designer
Shinobu Muraki	Production Designer
Yoshiro Muraki	Art Director
Akira Sakuragi	Art Director
Choreography	Credit
Michiyo Hata	Choreography
Film Camera	Credit
Takao Saito	Cinematographer
Masaharu Ueda	Cinematographer
Wardrobe Hair Makeup	Credit
Shoshichiro Ueda	Makeup
Emi Wada	Costume Designer
Norio Sano	Makeup
Tameyuki Aimi	Makeup