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.
Critics Sentiment
Art student enters Van Gogh's paintings and meets artist
Traveler meets horned demon in post-apocalyptic wasteland
The film drops significantly from the beloved Van Gogh segment to the heavy-handed environmental messaging of the post-apocalyptic sequences.
Dreams starts strong with visually stunning childhood vignettes, peaks with the universally praised Van Gogh segment, then struggles through preachy environmental messages before recovering with the peaceful watermill village conclusion. Critics consistently praised Kurosawa's visual mastery while noting uneven pacing and heavy-handed messaging in the later segments.
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Akira Terao
I
Mitsuko Baisho
Mother of 'I'
Toshie Negishi
Mother carrying child
Mieko Harada
The Snow Fairy
Mitsunori Isaki
Young I
Toshihiko Nakano
Child I
Yoshitaka Zushi
Pvt. Noguchi
Hisashi Igawa
Nuclear Plant Worker
Chosuke Ikariya
Crying Demon
Chishū Ryū
Old Man
Martin Scorsese
Vincent Van Gogh
Masayuki Yui
Member of Climbing Team
Tetsuo Yamashita
Second Lieutenant
Misato Tate
Peach Trees' Fairy
Catherine Cadou
Woman in the Fields
Mieko Suzuki
'I's Sister
Ryûjirô Oki
Masaaki Sasaki
Motohiro Toriki
Shû Nakajima
Member of Climbing Team
Crew
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