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Dreams
The past, present, and future. The thoughts and images of one man... for all men. One man's dreams... for every dreamer.
The past, present, and future. The thoughts and images of one man... ...
Drama, Fantasy - 1990
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A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Dreams
Seven Samurai
(1954)
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
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Rashomon
(1950)
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the r...
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Ran
(1985)
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable ...
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Yojimbo
(1961)
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in...
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Ikiru
(1952)
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Details

Rated:
PG
Runtime:
120 min
Release date:
11 May 1990
Country:
US, JP
Languages:
English, French, Japanese
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
3 wins & 12 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Dreams will knock your eyes out without ignoring the mind and heart.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2001
fresh:
It's something altogether new for Kurosawa, a collection of short, sometimes fragmentary films that are less like dreams than fairy tales of past, present and future. The magical and mysterious are mixed with the practical, funny and polemical.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
Only during a final procession does the old Kurosawa magic get a brief look-in, but by then the hackneyed moralising and dramatic languor have ensured that, despite the well-meaning message, it's hard to care.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
In the uneven career of Akira Kurosawa, two limiting factors were sentimentality and preachiness, and both come to the fore in this 1990 collection of eight dreams.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
9 Feb 2007
fresh:
There's greatness in the film's first hour.
– Terrence Rafferty,
New Yorker,
4 Mar 2013
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