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Customer Rating: Customer Review Rated Bad 6 - 6.5 out of 10 (2)
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A unique title in Kurosawa Akira's unparalleled filmography, his 1990 work Yume (a.k.a. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams) consists of eight dream sequences based on the director's actual dreams at different points in his life. Kurosawa is the undisputed grand master of Japanese cinema, and Yume is perhaps the work that is closest to the director himself, a masterpiece that drifts through time, fables, and imagined worlds. Spare in dialogue and rich in imagery, the anthology captures the hypnotic dreams and harrowing nightmares of a singular mind.

A young boy surreptitiously watches a fox spirit wedding procession in a forest on a sunny rainy day. Dolls come alive in a treeless peach orchard. A mysterious woman appears to a group of mountaineers caught in an unforgiving blizzard. An army officer encounters the ghosts of his past in a seemingly endless dark tunnel. An art student travels through a world made up of Van Gogh's works, encountering the artist (played by Martin Scorceses) in a field. The sky turns bloody red after a nuclear power plant meltdown, and five people stay behind as everyone flees for the ocean. A man encounters a demon-like man while drifting in a wasted post-apocalyptic land. A young traveler comes to a quiet, idyllic village where the people have decided to return to simpler times to reverse the damage caused by modern technology. Though eight separate stories, the themes and imagery painted in the shorts weave together into a message-laden whole.

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Product Title: Akira Kurosawa's Dreams 黑澤明之夢 黑泽明之梦 Akira Kursawa's Dreams Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Release Date: 2003-03-28
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai
Country of Origin: Japan
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Publisher: Warner Home Video (HK)
Package Weight: 80 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1002636359

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導演：黑澤明
Director: Akira Kurosawa

　　Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola and other moviemakers cite him as a primal influence. The Magnificent Seven, A Fistful of Dollars and the Star Wars sagas were inspired by his work. He's Akira Kurosawa, considered one of the 20th-century's greatest film directors.

　　Akira Kurosawa's Dreams is one of the most visionary, deeply personal works in the 60-year career of the master behind Rasbomon, The Seven Samurai and Ran. Comprised of eight episodes rich in imagery and insight (and featuring Socrses as Vincent Van Gogh), it explores the costs of war, the perils of nuclear power and especially humankind's need to harmonize with nature. You will be enchanted…… and enthralled.


﹡Dolby Digital Surround Stereo

﹡Widescreen Version: Presented in a "Matted"
　widescreen format preserving the aspect
　ratio of its original theatrical exhibition.
　Enhanced for widescreen TVS.
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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 6 - 6.5 out of 10 (2)
Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: Customer Review Rated Bad 7 - 7.7 out of 10 (3)

Kevin Kennedy
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July 20, 2008
Breathtaking imagery Customer Review Rated Bad 6 - 6 out of 10
"Akira Kurosawa's Dreams" is a collection of short subjects or 'dreams', all of which are visually arresting. My favorites are the first two. The first involves a young boy who gets an unauthorized glimpse of a wedding procession of fox spirits. The second shows the same boy witnessing a dance of peach tree spirits. Both of these stories draw strength from their roots in Japanese folklore. The second half of the film is much less successful, as it presents a series of "dreams" that rather clumsily retail a brand of anti-technology, back-to-nature environmentalism. All in all, "Dreams" is well worth watching, but a bit of a disappointment after its great start.
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Anonymous

April 28, 2003
A collection of Kurosawa shorts Customer Review Rated Bad 7 - 7 out of 10
Kurosawa's second-to-last film is almost like a short story collection, covering subject matters that range from apocalypic and haunting to wonderfully imaginative. The favorite seems to be his playful mini-biography of Vincent Van Gogh, giving the artist a chance to walk through a landscape of his own visual creations. But the most memorable is a simple Japanese ghost story, a period piece that tells of a child destined to become a changeling.

Kurosawa has never shown his visual flair to such advantage. While interest does vary from one story to the next, there's always the feeling that you're in the hands of a filmmaker able to tell a story from any time or genre.
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Dan
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November 6, 2001

This customer review refers to Akira Kursawa's Dreams (Deleted item - duplicated to 1002846372)
Incredible Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
This is one of if not THE best movies I have ever seen! All the depth of every movie buffs favorite Orson Welles movie but much more accesible. I highly recommend it.
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