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Dreams (1990 film)

Dreams
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Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Ishirō Honda
Produced by Allan H. Liebert
Hisao Kurosawa
Mike Y. Inoue
Seikichi Iizumi
Steven Spielberg
Written by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Akira Terao
Martin Scorsese
Mitsunori Isaki
Chishū Ryū
Mieko Harada
Music by Shinichirô Ikebe
Cinematography Takao Saito
Shôji Ueda
Edited by Tome Minami
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date
  • May 11, 1990 (1990-05-11)
Running time
119 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
French
English
Budget $12 million

Dreams ( Yume?, aka Akira Kurosawa's Dreams) is a 1990 magical realism film based on actual dreams that the film's director, Akira Kurosawa, claimed to have had repeatedly. It was his first film in which he was the sole author of the script. It was made five years after Ran, with assistance from George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg, and funded by Warner Bros.

The film was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.

The film does not have a single narrative, but is rather episodic in nature, following the adventures of a "surrogate Kurosawa" (often recognizable by his wearing Kurosawa's trademark hat) through eight different segments, or "dreams", each one titled.

There is an old legend in Japan that states that when the sun is shining through the rain, the kitsune (foxes) have their weddings (this is a common theme globally – see sunshower). In this first dream, a boy defies the wish of a woman, possibly his mother, to remain at home during a day with such weather. From behind a large tree in the nearby forest, he witnesses the slow wedding procession of the kitsune. Unfortunately, he is spotted by the foxes and runs. When he tries to return home, the same woman says that a fox had come by the house, leaving behind a tantō knife. The woman gives the knife to the boy, implying that he must commit suicide. The woman asks the boy to go and beg forgiveness from the foxes, although they are known to be unforgiving, refusing to let him in unless he does so. The boy sets off into the mountains, towards the place under the rainbow in search for the kitsune's home.


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