Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (Widescreen) PG
Academy Award-winning director Akira Kurosawa, whose cinematic genius has inspired such classic films as "Star Wars" and "The Magnificent Seven," presents his 28th and most personal film.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 14, 2011
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Chishû Ryû & Akira Terao | |
Performer: | Mieko Harada & Martin Scorsese | |
Directed by | Akira Kurosawa | |
Screenwriting by | Akira Kurosawa | |
Executive Production by | Steven Spielberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[Kurosawa's] swansong...
Sight and Sound
...[The tales'] awesome visual beauty encourages a degree of patience that's usually well rewarded...
Entertainment Weekly
...Grand....The magical and mysterious are mixed with the practical, funny and polemical...
New York Times
...AKIRA KUROSAWA'S DREAMS contains some of the most beautiful images ever conceived by the man who is widely regarded as the world's greatest living director...
Los Angeles Times
...There's an abundance of striking imagery throughout, particularly in early vignettes that celebrate childhood innocence... -- 3 out of 4 stars
USA Today
Description by OLDIES.com:
Academy Award-winning director Akira Kurosawa ("The Seven Samurai," "Ran"), whose cinematic genius has inspired such classic films as "Star Wars" and "The Magnificent Seven," presents his 28th, and most personal, film. Visually splendid, Kurosawa's film consists of eight powerful vignettes, one of which features acclaimed director Martin Scorsese as painter Vincent Van Gogh.
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Akira Kurosawa's DREAMS consists of eight short films based on actual dreams of the director. The first sequence, "Sunshine Through the Rain," features a young boy sneaking off into the forest on a rainy day to watch a procession of enchanted foxes. In "The Peach Orchard," a slightly older boy witnesses tree spirits performing a delicate dance. Weary travelers in "The Blizzard" face the elemental wrath of a snow enchantress, while "The Tunnel" finds a military officer haunted by the ghosts of his dead regiment. In "Crows," an art aficionado literally walks into the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh (played by Martin Scorsese). "Mount Fuji in Red" and "The Weeping Demon" are both fantastical cautionary tales about the hazards of nuclear power. Finally the gentle "Village of the Watermills" brings the film to a quiet, pastoral end.
A highly personal project, DREAMS evinces its labor-of-love atmosphere in every sequence. As with all Kurosawa productions, each short film is meticulously designed and beautifully photographed. While many of the middle sequences are eerie and surreal, the first two films and the finale ("Sunshine Through the Rain," "The Peach Orchard," and "Village of the Watermills") are gorgeously lush and serene.
A highly personal project, DREAMS evinces its labor-of-love atmosphere in every sequence. As with all Kurosawa productions, each short film is meticulously designed and beautifully photographed. While many of the middle sequences are eerie and surreal, the first two films and the finale ("Sunshine Through the Rain," "The Peach Orchard," and "Village of the Watermills") are gorgeously lush and serene.
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