This Japanese-American co-production can be regarded as Kurosawa’s last personal philosophic and cinematic testament as he explores in eight vignettes the cost of war, the perils of nuclear warfare, and above all man’s need to harmonise with nature. It is Kurosawa’s belief that, ‘Man is genius when he dreams’, and his visions are here, superbly realised in Takao Sato and Masaharu Ueda’s sunny cinematography. In Japanese with English subtitles. Cast includes Martin Scorsese and Akire Terao.
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ACMI Identifier
312585
Language
Japanese
Audience classification
PG
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Foreign language films
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Surrealism in motion pictures
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Nuclear warfare
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → War
Crafts & Visual Arts → Surrealism in motion pictures
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Humanism
Fantasy & Science Fiction → Fantasy
Feature films → Feature films - Japan
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Dreams
Magic, Occult & Supernatural → Dreams
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)