KinoCult presents: "Dreams" (1990) by Akira Kurosawa

Join us on October 14 at 19:00 at the "Lumiere" cinema.

"Dreams" is one of Akira Kurosawa's most personal films - eight stories inspired by his own dreams and Japanese folklore.

A little boy witnesses a wedding procession of foxes. A soldier meets the spirits of his fallen comrades. An accident at a nuclear power plant turns Mount Fuji into an apocalyptic landscape. And in one of the most famous episodes, a character literally enters the paintings of Vincent van Gogh.

"Dreams" appears at a particularly symbolic moment in Kurosawa's career. In March 1990, at the age of 80, he received an honorary Oscar for his lifetime achievement in cinema, presented to him by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. A few months later, "Dreams" opened the Cannes festival, with Spielberg as the executive producer of the film, Industrial Light & Magic of Lucas behind some of the visual effects, and Martin Scorsese in the unusual role of Vincent van Gogh.

The film itself later received a nomination for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.

Kurosawa actually wrote a ninth dream that was never filmed. Its script has been preserved and later published by Criterion Collection.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Mie Harada, Chishu Ryu, Martin Scorsese
Cinematography: Takao Saito, Shoji Ueda
Editing: Tome Minami
Music: Shinichiro Ikebe
Language: Japanese | Subtitles: Bulgarian
Duration: 120 min.