Directed/Written by Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Satoshi Terao/Mitsuko Beido/Yoshii Negishi/Mieko Harada/Mitsunori Izaki
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
Production country: Japan/USA
Language: Japanese/French/English
Release Date: 1990-05-10(Cannes Film Festival) / 1990-05-25(Japan) / 1990-08-24(USA)
Running time: 120 minutes
Synopsis of the dream
This film is the Japanese film emperor Akira Kurosawa’s vision of the dream, a total of eight dreams, namely: sun rain, peach orchard, snow, tunnel, crow, red Mount Fuji, weeping devil and water wheel village. These eight dreams run through almost all the themes of human life, war and peace, society and life. There are different scenes in different dreams, with different colors, presenting all the themes faced by human beings one by one.