Dreams
The past, present, and future. The thoughts and images of one man... for all men. One man's dreams... for every dreamer.
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.
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Worldwide
- $3M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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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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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Dreams returned 0.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $12M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $3M
- Release date
- May 11, 1990
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- MPAA rating
- PG
- Language
- English, French
- Country
- Japan, United States of America
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