Dreams

About Dreams

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.

Dreams (1990) is a fantasy film directed by Akira Kurosawa. Its themes are anthology, artist, complicated, and ambivalent.

Akira Terao takes the lead as I, Mitsuko Baisho as Mother of 'I', Toshie Negishi as Mother carrying child, and Mieko Harada as The Snow Fairy. At 119 minutes long, it arrived in May 1990.

The screenplay is by Akira Kurosawa.

Summer of 85, Ammonite, and Galveston make useful companions to Dreams, all filed under familiar. TMDB voters put it at 7.7 out of 10 across 606 votes and it carries a PG rating.