Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
Dreams (1990)
A Film by Akira Kurosawa
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | 02:01:55 | 5,13 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
A Film by Akira Kurosawa
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | 02:01:55 | 5,13 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
A collection of tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
This is essentially eight separate short films, though with some overlaps in terms of characters and thematic material - chiefly that of man's relationship with his environment. 'Sunshine Through The Rain': a young boy is told not to go out on the day when both weather conditions occur, because that's when the foxes hold their wedding procession, which could have fatal consequences for those who witness it. 'The Peach Orchard': the same young boy encounters the spirits of the peach trees that have been cut down by heartless humans. 'The Blizzard': a team of mountaineers are saved from a blizzard by spiritual intervention. 'The Tunnel': a man encounters the ghosts of an army platoon, whose deaths he was responsible for. 'Crows': an art student encounters 'Vincent Van Gogh' and enters the world of his paintings. 'Mount Fuji in Red': nuclear meltdown threatens the devastation of Japan…
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
When someone wants to tell you about a dream they just had, this is a cue to check your watch and find someplace to be fast. But when Akira Kurosawa wants to talk about his reveries, skid to a halt, sit down and watch. Listen. Drink. And please keep your eyes off that damn watch.
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"Akira Kurosawa's Dreams," eight fantasies by one of the cinema's last visionaries, is a magnificent, immensely absorbing experience. To be honest, only the hardiest of film aficionados will get through all of its two hours without some viewer fatigue. But this is the result of too much – rather than too little – poetry. This is overload of the most delectable kind.
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The segments, all self-contained entities, have no narrative connection, although an "I" character (played mostly by Akira Terao) functions as Kurosawa's alter ego and journeys through each dream. What they also share is Kurosawa's complete, uninhibited trust in his sleeping visions, his utter repudiation of things left-brain. Certainly each selection has its beginning, middle and end. But the experience is distinctively surrealistic, an opportunity to float atop a masterful eddying of images, sounds and music.
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The first two stories are centered around the "I" as a young boy. In "Sunshine Through the Rain," he steals out into the woods to witness a wedding procession of foxes, said to occur only when sun and rain mingle. In "The Peach Orchard," the boy encounters 60 ornately costumed human shina dolls angry that the boy's family has felled all the trees in a peach orchard.
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The "I" character is seen as an older man, contending with, among many things, war, a fantasy meeting with Vincent van Gogh (played with a certain Western intrusion by Martin Scorsese!), and apocalyptic, nuclear explosions. The final three pieces ("Mount Fuji in Red," "The Weeping Demon" and "Village of the Watermills") flag a little, however, because Kurosawa drops his previous, childlike integrity for some post-nuclear finger wagging.
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But these didactic transgressions are to be expected of an aging veteran in the twilight of his career – and they are minor irritants. They are also vastly outnumbered by the many elements to savor: The interplay of light, mist and rain in "Sunshine," for instance, is breathtaking, as is the choreography of the vivid dolls in "Peach." The moaning wind, the distant rumble of an avalanche and the labored breathings of four exhausted explorers in "The Blizzard," are haunting, crisply atmospheric sounds. So are the noises of increasingly loud marching feet as a ghost platoon emerges from a dark tunnel in "The Tunnel."
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"Dreams" ends on water, the one metaphor that has intrigued almost all the cinematic masters. After a lifetime of work, Kurosawa sees everything as perpetual flow: here now, gone tomorrow, back again in some other life.
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
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