#842: KUROSAWA, Akira: Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
KUROSAWA, Akira (Japan)
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams [1990]
Spine #842
Blu-ray
120 minutes
The Extras
The Booklet
Thirty-six page booklet featuring an essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri and Kurosawa’s script for a never-filmed ninth dream, introduced by production manager Teruyo Nogami.
Commentary
Featuring film scholar Stephen Prince.
Making of “Dreams” (1990)
A 150-minute documentary shot on set and directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi.
Interview 1
With Nogami.
Interview 2
With assistant director Takashi Koizumi.
Kurosawa’s Way (2011)
A fifty-minute documentary by Kurosawa’s longtime translator Catherine Cadou, featuring interviews with filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, and others.
Trailer
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams [1990]
Spine #842
Blu-ray
Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved director's own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore. In a visually sumptuous journey though the master's imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a young boy stumbles on a fox wedding in a forest; a soldier confronts the ghosts of the war dead; a power plant meltdown smothers a seaside landscape in radioactive fumes. Interspersed with reflections on the redemptive power of creation, including a richly textured tribute to Vincent van Gogh (who is played by Martin Scorsese), Akira Kurosawa's Dreams is both a showcase for its maker's artistry at its most unbridled and a deeply personal lament for a world at the mercy of human ignorance.
120 minutes
Color
2.0 Surround
in Japanese
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2016
2.0 Surround
in Japanese
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2016
Director/Writer
Akira Kurosawa was 80 when he wrote and directed Akira Kurosawa's Dreams.
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The Film
Other Kurosawa films in the Collection:
Eclipse Series 23: Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
Eclipse Series 23: The Most Beautiful (1944)
Eclipse Series 23: Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (1945)
Eclipse Series 23: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945)
Eclipse Series 7: No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
Eclipse Series 7: One Wonderful Sunday (1947)Eclipse Series 23: Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
Eclipse Series 23: The Most Beautiful (1944)
Eclipse Series 23: Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (1945)
Eclipse Series 23: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945)
Eclipse Series 7: No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
#413: Drunken Angel (1948)
Eclipse Series 7: Scandal (1950)
Eclipse Series 7: The Idiot (1951)
#221: Ikiru (1952)
#2: Seven Samurai (1954)
Eclipse Series 7: I Live in Fear (1955)
#53: Sanjuro (1962)
#24: High and Low (1963)
#159: Red Beard (1965)
#465: Dodes'Ka-Den (1970)
#267: Kagemusha (1980)
#24: High and Low (1963)
#159: Red Beard (1965)
#465: Dodes'Ka-Den (1970)
#267: Kagemusha (1980)
The Film
The Booklet
Thirty-six page booklet featuring an essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri and Kurosawa’s script for a never-filmed ninth dream, introduced by production manager Teruyo Nogami.
Commentary
Featuring film scholar Stephen Prince.
Making of “Dreams” (1990)
A 150-minute documentary shot on set and directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi.
Interview 1
With Nogami.
Interview 2
With assistant director Takashi Koizumi.
Kurosawa’s Way (2011)
A fifty-minute documentary by Kurosawa’s longtime translator Catherine Cadou, featuring interviews with filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, and others.
Trailer
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