Dreams
1990
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Synopsis
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.
Dreams (1990) is a 1h 59min fantasy feature film by Akira Kurosawa. Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s...
Key facts
Cast
Mitsuko Baisho, Mieko Harada, Toshie Negishi, Chishu Ryu, Martin Scorsese, Mitsunori Isaki, Akira Terao, Toshihiko Nakano
Original language
English
First release
May 11, 1990 (Italy)
Production companies
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Home video distributors
Warner Home Video (United States)
Setting
Japan
Crew
Screenplay
Ishiro Honda, Akira Kurosawa
Producer
Hisao Kurosawa, Mike Y. Inoue
Cinematography
Shoji Ueda, Takao Saitō
Editing
Tome Minami
Music
Shinichiro Ikebe
Trailer
Stills
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Titles
| Québec French title | Rêves | |
| Alternate title | Akira Kurosawa's Dreams | |
| Alternate title | Konna yume o mita | |
| Alternate title | Dreams | |
| Alternate title | Such Dreams I Have Dreamed | |
| Alternate title | I Saw a Dream Like This |
VHS & home video releases
| VHS | Warner Home Video (cat. no. 11911) | 1991, United States, slipcase |
Releases & classifications
| Theatrical | Italy | May 11, 1990 |
| Theatrical | Denmark | May 18, 1990 |
| Theatrical | Finland | May 18, 1990 |
| Theatrical | Sweden | May 18, 1990 |
| Theatrical | Netherlands | May 23, 1990 |
| Theatrical | United Kingdom | May 25, 1990 |
| Theatrical | Japan | May 25, 1990 |
| Theatrical | Portugal | May 25, 1990 |
| Theatrical | Germany | May 31, 1990 |
| Theatrical | Uruguay | August 23, 1990 |
| Theatrical | United States | August 24, 1990 |
| Theatrical | Australia | September 6, 1990 |
| Theatrical | Slovenia | September 11, 1990 |
| Theatrical | Argentina | October 4, 1990 |
| Theatrical | Turkey | March 8, 1991 |
| Theatrical | Philippines | July 16, 1991 |
| Theatrical | Hungary | October 4, 1991 |
| Theatrical | Czech Republic | January 18, 2001 |
| Theatrical | Germany | May 15, 2003 |
| Television | Poland | May 25, 2011 |
| Classification | Germany | 12 |
| Classification | United Kingdom | PG |
| Classification | United States | PG |
Versions & editions
| Home video | Japan | December 16, 1990 |
| Home video VHS | United States | 1991 11911 |
| Home video | United States | June 26, 1991 |
| Home video | United States | March 18, 2003 |
| Home video | Japan | December 6, 2003 |
| Home video | France | April 19, 2006 |
| Home video | Germany | December 31, 2008 |
| Home video | Taiwan | April 23, 2011 |
| Home video | Spain | July 5, 2011 |
| Home video | Netherlands | July 5, 2011 |
| Home video | United States | August 30, 2011 |
| Home video | United States | November 15, 2016 |
| Home video | United Kingdom | November 21, 2016 |
| Home video | Hong Kong | September 14, 2017 |
| Home video | Germany | September 28, 2017 |
| Home video | Israel | September 28, 2017 |
| Home video | Japan | December 6, 2017 |
| Home video | Spain | July 29, 2020 |
| Home video | Brazil | February 23, 2023 |
| Home video | United States | June 8, 2023 |
| Home video | France | July 24, 2023 |
| Home video | United Kingdom | April 22, 2024 |
Full credits
| Director | Akira Kurosawa, Ishiro Honda |
| Cast | Mitsuko Baisho, Mieko Harada, Toshie Negishi, Chishu Ryu, Martin Scorsese, Mitsunori Isaki (Young I), Akira Terao, Toshihiko Nakano (Child I), Yoshitaka Zushi (Pvt. Noguchi), Hisashi Igawa (Nuclear Plant Worker), Chosuke Ikariya (Crying Demon), Masayuki Yui (Member of Climbing Team), Tetsuo Yamashita (Second Lieutenant), Misato Tate (Peach Trees' Fairy), Catherine Cadou (Woman in the Fields), Mieko Suzuki ('I's Sister), Ryûjirô Oki, Masaaki Sasaki, Motohiro Toriki, Shû Nakajima (Member of Climbing Team), Masuo Amada, Sakae Kimura (Member of Climbing Team), Meikyo Yamada, Tetsu Watanabe, Tetsuya Ito, Hiroshi Miyasaka, Toshiya Ito, Takashi Itô, Yasuhito Yamanaka, Haruka Sugata, Noriko Hayami, Yûko Ishiwa, Sachiko Oguri, Fujio Tokita, Michio Hino, Michio Kida, Noriko Honma, Haruko Tōgō, Reiko Nanao, Shin Tonomura, Junpei Natsuki, Shigeo Katō, Saburô Kadowaki, Goichi Nagatani, Shizuko Azuma, Yoshie Kihira, Yukie Shimura, Setsuko Kawaguchi, Kumeko Otowa, Masahiko Sakata, Tokuju Masuda |
| Screenplay | Ishiro Honda, Akira Kurosawa |
| Producer | Hisao Kurosawa, Mike Y. Inoue |
| Executive producer | Steven Spielberg |
| Cinematography | Shoji Ueda, Takao Saitō |
| Editing | Tome Minami |
| Music | Shinichiro Ikebe |
| Production design | Akira Sakuragi, Yoshirō Muraki |
| Visual effects | Ken Ralston, Mark Sullivan, Minoru Nakano |
| Sound | Kenichi Benitani |
| Costumes | Emi Wada |
Additional data: TMDB.
Source: Cinémathèque québécoise, linked catalogue data (CC BY 4.0)
