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Dreams
JAPAN · 1990

Dreams

Akira Kurosawa
mortality and impermanence human relationship with nature artistic vision and creation childhood memory and innocence nuclear anxiety and environmental destruction
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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.

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