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Dreams(1990)
Status: Released
Date: 1990-05-11
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519 Votes
Time: 1h 59m
The past, present, and future. The thoughts and images of one man... for all men. One man's dreams... for every dreamer.
Overview:
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
Languages: English, French, Japanese.
Countries:
United States of America,
Japan
Budget: $12,000,000.00
Revenue: $2,970,161.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Akira Kurosawa USA
Movie: Dreams
Top 10 Billed Cast
寺尾聰
I
倍賞美津子
Mother of 'I'
根岸季衣
Mother carrying child
原田美枝子
The Snow Fairy
伊崎充則
Young I
頭師佳孝
Pvt. Noguchi
井川比佐志
Nuclear Plant Worker
いかりや長介
Crying Demon
笠智衆
Old Man
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Dreams (1990) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
Teruyo Nogami on AKIRA KUROSAWA’S DREAMS
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