The read
A Balasaur Score of 75 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes 67%. Scores higher than 87% of the 374 1990s fantasy movies in this catalog.
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes67%
593 audience votes
Key crew
- Akira KurosawaDirector
- Shinichiro IkebeOriginal Music Composer
- Akira KurosawaWriter
Cast
- Akira TeraoI
- Mitsuko BaishoMother of 'I'
- Toshie NegishiMother carrying child
- Mieko HaradaThe Snow Fairy
- Mitsunori IsakiYoung I
- Toshihiko NakanoChild I
- Yoshitaka ZushiPvt. Noguchi
- Hisashi IgawaNuclear Plant Worker
- Chosuke IkariyaCrying Demon
- Chishū RyūOld Man
- Martin ScorseseVincent Van Gogh
- Masayuki YuiMember of Climbing Team
Stills
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Themes
life and deathartistvolcanonuclear power plantanthologymagic realismdream worldcatastrophekidsmount fuji, japancrowsambivalent
The Best Movies of 1990
Dreams is #25 of 60
