Synopsis
The past, present, and future. The thoughts and images of one man... for all men. One man's dreams... for every dreamer.
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
1990 ‘夢’ Directed by Akira Kurosawa
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
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this is, for lack of a better word, so dreamy and majestically beautiful. even with some of the harsher sequences, there’s a real tenderness to creating something that resonates.
In high school, I took a psychology course during which I learned, erroneously or not, that dreams are just random images fired off by your brain. Some meaning is attached to them, but it's largely after the fact. After learning this, I more or less stop being interested in them. Any value they had as insights to my life were basically negated by the fact that dreams were entirely random. Other people's dreams became especially dull to me. "Oh, I had the weirdest dream..." essentially means "Oh, I had a perfectly normal dream." Yeah, I'm kinda a jerk. But I just don't tend to find discussions of actual dreams very interesting. (Fictional dreams, especially prophetic visions and whatnot, are fine,…
Through Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams you notice a profound reflection of the director’s ideals and values he had during his life. This is probably his most experimental work and adding all the hallucinatory sequences, surrealism, post-apocalyptic visions and an exuberant display of nature really helped enhancing the whole experience to a whole other level. While some of the dreams might be more enticing to watch than others, they all have a deep significance attached to them. At the end of the day, this is a fascinating celebration of life and death that will certainly stick with you.
Maybe the best use of color I've ever seen in a film???? To everyone who deceived me into thinking this was lesser Kurosawa, hang your heads in shame.
beginning with a terrifying wedding and ending with a joyous funeral march; dreams is one of the few films which expresses the totality of an entire life-world, from youth to old age, hope and despair, birth and apocalypse, art and nature. kurosawa, untethered from the constrictions of direct narrative, flows from one episode to the next, the themes of each building on the edifice of the previous entries -- dreams creates a unique cinematic space that allows to feel the widest spectrum of our own emotions and experiences, a spectrum which has room for the elegance of spirits, the fear of nuclear power, the simplicity of trees. it's both autobiographical and universal, both japanese and multinational -- all of kurosawa's…
Dreams is a unique concept for a film, consisting entirely of short films inspired by Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams. It is unlike anything else in his filmography and pure surreal arthouse. The images are beautiful and abstract, the storytelling often formless and wordless but forever hypnotic. All the sections are interesting in their own way, but the dreamy and slow presentation makes for something much more. Whilst Dreams is somewhat like Dodes'ka-den in having multiple stories, it is all structured and separated clearly here.
There is much speculation as to how this jigsaw fits into Kurosawa's personal life. What do these dreams tell us about Kurosawa's mind? Nothing really, or rather no more than our own dreams do. Each dream…
I would have liked if Kurosawa could have made some segments that are more like the dreams I regularly have. Maybe one about a student who forgets to go to an exam, or one about a guy who’s about to have sex but then wakes up.
As an Akira Kurosawa fantasy that deals with the concept of dream, Dreams feels ultra simplistic and overbearingly didactic for its overstretched runtime of nearly 2 hours. Thankfully it has breathtaking visuals and Kurosawa's name attached to it to save itself from being a total self-righteous drag.
Comprised of multiple segments of Kurosawa's bizarre dreams throughout his life, Dreams never dives deep enough into the bone-chilling realm occupied by the Lynchian classics. Instead it barely scratches the surface, with a single-minded resolve to force-feed the audience with the importance of environmental protection. Almost every segment is dedicated to such cause, promoting the harmony between human and nature via Kurosawa's twisted yet somehow cliched dreamworld of ghosts, fairies or simply apocalyptic…
I’ve also had a wet dream where Martin Scorsese was Vincent Van Gogh, very cool Kurosawa.
I’ve always been fascinated with the depiction of dreams in film. Awhile back I labeled film as the truest form of expression and dreams as the purest form of escapism and the rawest look at the internal psyche. So I think when brought together human expression and desire are perfectly molded into an artistic interpretation of the human condition. Kurosawa’s Dreams takes this idea even further by depicting multiple dreams, not connected by narrative but rather bound together strongly by tone, themes, and atmosphere.
The worlds present in Dreams are often fantastical landscapes perfectly accentuated with exuberant colors, meticulous and precise framing, and a…
Dunno why this was so coolly received when it came out. Did folks just hate beauty? Alright so it's not as good as Throne of Blood. Well, neither are you!
Nobody... (*does a quick mental inventory of every director who ever lived*)... and I mean truly nobody was more a master of the cinematic frame than Kurosawa. Blocking, composition, all that jazz. So it's notable that so many of the compositions in this movie are... elemental. Take the "Mount Fuji in Red" sequence here. The first part is a complicated, Godzilla-like spectacle (by the way, Ishiro Honda gets a prominent "creative consultant" credit), but the second part is a simple tableau of a few survivors stranded at the side of…