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



  • 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
  • February 3, 2008
    One of the most beautiful movies i've ever seen
  • December 28, 2007
    Entre nos sonhos do mestre!
  • December 9, 2007
    Even though I can´t see the connection between the stories... Each one gives you the sensation of dreaming. I specially liked the one of the tunnel and the death soldiers.
  • November 20, 2007
    This movie is very impressive, personally i think it is beautiful yet disturbing....
    Be patient,and you will found that it worth your time...
    For a kids, this is definitely a nightmare, not a dream....
    But for Akira Kurosawa, or perhaps for us...well....we know this is not jus...( read more)t a dream...
    Nice cinematography, nice setting, nice story and message...
    The use of Japanese folk culture to present the story, it means more if we understand the culture...
  • October 31, 2007
    a surreal dream painting translated into film.heavenly
  • October 28, 2007
    relationship between nature and mankind should be balance..
  • October 9, 2007
    Eu tenho um certo problemas com filmes orientais: não gosto nem fodendo. Até gosto da estética de alguns, mas geralmente não passa disso. Com "Sonhos" foi diferente... Eu assisti com um respeito grande, tentando gostar desesperadamente, pois sabia que era um "filme cult". As impr...( read more)essões que ficaram em mim foram bem diversas. A primeira: a estética onírica do filme é mesmo linda. Dá vontade de entrar em alguns cenários (são diversos episódios), fazer a linha MST, invadir e construir uma casa de veraneio por lá. Segunda impressão: os japoneses são realmente loucos. Eles têm uma cultura intimamente ligada à idéia de escapismo e suicídio. O filme trata dessas questões direta e indiretamente em diversos momentos. Alguns bem interessantes. Terceira impressão: alguns espisódios são poéticos demais e chatos demais. Fica aquela lenga-lenga repetitiva que pouco caminha e só faz dormir. Quarta impressão: acho que me falta bagagem cultural japa para compreender todos os aspectos do filme. Volta e meia, surgia uma eventual referência a alguma tradição milenar japonesa ou simplesmente a um costume ou um jeito de ser comum ao povo de lá. Recomendo, mas preparem-se pra uma experiência cinematográfica nada pipoca.
  • October 6, 2007
    5 Stars for cinematography, 3 1/2 for the story. Imaginative film but leaves something to be desired.
  • October 4, 2007
    The first four chapter is beautiful and fabulous.
  • October 1, 2007
    this is one of the best movie that i have seen
  • September 21, 2007
    Simply Touching and Moving, Must Watch.


    The movie consists of eight short stories. Most of which center around the issue of people's relationships with other elements that make up this world that we live in.
  • September 12, 2007
    This movie made a lasting impression on me when I first saw it as a teenager. One of the most amazing anthology movies, by the masterful Akira Kurosawa...this film probably shaped my movie viewing for the rest of my life, having from this point gravitated towards foreign and inde...( read more)pendent film, and i still have on my "to do" list: watch all of Kurosawa's movies!!!
  • September 4, 2007
    Beautifully weird & artsy.
  • September 2, 2007
    it is ok, but i wish can better
  • August 31, 2007
    Watch this movie when its raining heavily outside...Kurosawa is amazing...a must for film school students.Visuals are amazing. Camera angles are superb.
  • August 30, 2007
    Film Craftmanship..Puzzling Semiotics...
  • August 22, 2007
    A collection of short films - major cool stuff. A few near the beginning are too god damn slow but others are unforgettable and have affected my life.
  • August 16, 2007
    Una gran película, sin duda.
  • August 15, 2007
    Not his best, it is still strangely evocative and compelling to watch. The most disturbing vignette has a soldier coming face to face with the souls of his lost platoon, while the most blissful concerns a visit to a peaceful, Japanese waterwheel village.
  • August 6, 2007
    This is bizarre and fairly boring but really nice to look at.

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