Dreams (Akira Kurosawa's Dreams) (Yume) Reviews and Ratings



  • November 14, 2009
    Fascinating! Definitely one of the best movie I've ever seen.
  • November 12, 2009
    la fotografia mas hermosa que e visto hasta el momento
  • November 1, 2009
    Queria eu poder fazer um filme dos meus próprios sonhos e ganhar dinheiro com isso.
  • October 21, 2009
    Saw this in High School... don't really remember what the movie was all about, but the colors-- I remember the colors and I was fascinated.
  • October 18, 2009
    Kurosawa's most visually striking film. Eight hypnotic and eloquent short segments. Spielberg presented this film in Europe, while Lucas' ILM company did the effects and finally, who wouldn't want to see Scorsese playing Van Gogh? It's the pacing and experiment in time that makes...( read more) one experience this film in a particular fashion. Like staring at a painting for an extended period of time, we are slowly drawn into each dream world. Beautifully captivating.
  • October 4, 2009
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  • September 26, 2009
    Stunning visuals in some scenes are worth watching. That's it. I'm tired of the other mediocre messages the old man tries to deliver.
  • September 20, 2009
    amazing cinematography but, overall, just far too dry for me to even finish it all in one session. sleeper.
  • September 18, 2009
    Calmed, deep, meaningful and harmonic. Beauty can be found in every frame. Kurosawa's last masterpiece, before Madadayo.

    81/100
  • August 27, 2009
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  • August 12, 2009
    nominated for best foreign film at the golden globes
  • August 9, 2009
    Martin Scorsese playing Vincent Van Gogh in a film by Akira Kurosawa? In the words of Johnny Depp in a recent rather respectable crime film: "What more you need to know?"
  • June 30, 2009
    what an amazing piece of art. Surreal&wonderful its almost like magic!Beautiful!
  • June 30, 2009
    it's really like a dream to see another people's dream, especially the unique one.,
    and it's really delightful to see my fave director act in his fave director's movie.,
    but there's something that i don't really enjoy about kurosawa's style of directing, it's very detail, it kind...( read more)a exhausting to see..
  • June 13, 2009
    It's really "dreaming" from start to end. This is a real logic of "the art of simplicity and beauty".
  • June 7, 2009
    the last dream reminded me a lot of Miyazaki <3 it made me all peaceful inside. WONDERFUL *
  • May 17, 2009
    this film is a compilation of several short films. every story is surreal. the story was start from the past (where myth or supersticious is still important) untill the future (nuclear, chaos, etc). every story was given beautifully and so symbolic. i love it!
    the story i love t...( read more)he most... the soldier's story...
  • May 16, 2009
    beautiful film... love the Sunshine Through The Rain,The Peach Orchard,The Blizzard,Crows,and Village of the Watermills.
    this movie is inpired in actual dreams that this director had.. i wish i could dream like him!! lol!
  • April 1, 2009
    a esta si la quiero ver
  • March 29, 2009
    Great yet a bit strange. This one is sorted under 'animation' please correct that!
  • March 14, 2009
    Kurosawa nos presenta sus sueños, angustias y temores es realmente hermoso
  • March 12, 2009
    Yo sé que es algo estúpido, pero me aburrió un poco lo indirecta que es la película. La imagen es asombrosa.
  • February 23, 2009
    Love it, so impressive
  • February 13, 2009
    eight dreams, eight short trips into the mind of one of the best filmmakers of all time. the visuals are stunning, very colourfull and dreamy-like, and the stories are awesomly simple and sweet combined with a deep analysis of human fears, thoughts and nature. marvelous....
  • January 28, 2009
    Kurosawa has many masterpieces under his belt but this is my personal fav.
  • January 8, 2009
    some beautiful imagery for sure, but for a film that relies so heavily on visuals not the best in kurosawa's catalog.
  • January 8, 2009
    Great film. Outstanding in every way.
  • December 22, 2008
    muy rara la pelicula jaja
  • December 15, 2008
    Top notch film making from one of the real artists.
  • December 13, 2008
    director's quote: "man is a genius when he is dreaming"
  • November 6, 2008
    My favorite movie of all time. A dystopic look at 20th-century Japan in the form of eight dream sequences. Explores the complex relationship between man and nature, including our best attempts to destroy it. The centenarian in the final dream sums it up: "The most important thing...( read more)s for human beings are clean air and clean water."
  • October 28, 2008
    This has a very dated feel to it. Patchy, in that it is interesting in places...but overall, fails to keep the attention.
  • August 28, 2008
    there were parts of this i really liked and parts i didnt understand. with the camera and the story. as much as i love a story that was the part i missed the most and it made me feel teh most un comfertable but the tunnel secene was the most comellling and i stayed entertained.
  • July 7, 2008
    I actually HAVE seen this, but it was a long time ago and I don't have much memory of it.
  • July 4, 2008
    Disappointing late film by Kurasawa.
  • July 2, 2008
    why do i still remember this movie after all these years? it's just well done, with crisp short stories in all its episodes, and great cinematography!
  • June 30, 2008
    The problem with Anthology films is that some stories are bound to be better than other ones. It seemed like Kurisowa just had a few scenes in his head that he knew he would never live long enough to film and decided to combine them all. One part of ...(read more)the film where a...( read more) character is walking through a series of Vincent Van Goh paintings is visually stunning and amazing, as is a scene about a young boy talking to the spirits of dead peach trees, but the rest is oversimplistic technology bad, war bad, atomic energy bad, human progress stupid, lets all live in huts rhetoric that just got pretty tired pretty fast. The film making is compelling though a bit muted at times, a tendency in even the best Japanese works, as common as American films and melodrama. Nonetheless this is a film with it's fair share of beautiful moments, and has a fitting place at the end of Kurisowa's distinguished career, a good film for patient film buffs, or those who enjoy visual spectacle.
  • June 28, 2008
    Really intresting serias of short stories that are presenting Akira's dreams. I personally liked the most a dream with Van Gogh, and Tunnel. They are all very much connected with death.
  • June 18, 2008
    Amazing storytelling.
  • April 25, 2008
    disturbing, political.
  • April 24, 2008
    Still on the fence about which Kurosawa-era I enjoy more, his black and white world or the films in color that are some of the most impressive. Made of 8 short tales, each one presumably dreamt by Kurosawa, they are arranged in chronological order from childhood to old age.

    T...( read more)hemes range from childhood fears, sorrow of war, and accepting one's own mortality. Highlights include Village of the Watermills and Scorsese's portrayal of Van Gogh.
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  • April 8, 2008
    Amazing...a cinematic candy store!
  • April 3, 2008
    Awesome collection of highly effective shorts that, together, form a thought-provoking and visually stimulating work of cinema.

    A real departure from kurosawa's other works. well worth watching.
  • March 23, 2008
    One of the most beautifully shot films ever made.
  • March 20, 2008
    Uneven series of dreams of AK, goes downhill quickly after the first section, although old Chishu Ryu makes an appearance for the final segment
  • February 21, 2008
    truly bootyful! but extremely boring

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