Dreams (1990) by Akira Kurosawa

I never really into Japanese animated historical fantasy feature film ,like Princess Mononoke ,Castle in the Sky,etc,. When I watching these movie ,I just know what this movie will tell us ,which the theme is always for protecting environment and human brutal at killing animal.
First,I will list the summary for every dreams below.
Dream 1 – a kid encounters a group of people who act like animals; the kid walks, the animal people walk.


Dream 2 – a kid encounters a group of people who act like flowers; the kid walks, the flower people dance.

Dream 3 – a group of guys walk around in a snowstorm .
Dream 4 – some guy walks down a tunnel – very very slowly, then tries to explain death to a group of really stupid dead people.

Dream 5 – some guy has a completely meaningless conversation with Van Gogh, then briskly walks around inside various paintings.





Dream 6 – nuclear reactors explode, people die, and the chapter ends with an absolute moron trying to defend himself against radioactivity by waving his coat in the air.

Dream 7 – some guy walks around aimlessly in the fog, then meets a bunch of nutty mutant dudes who contribute a "mourning" ceremony that is perhaps the cheesiest, most poorly acted scene in motion picture history.

Dream 8 – a watermill scene with some decent conversations about nature and science.

Dreams is not a really easy film to review, as it is an episodic bundle of various dreams from throughout Akira Kurosawa's life. So watching it is like going from one to another without a fully connecting thread. Thus, each one is like a perfectly contained short film where the director's awesome gifts of his painter's eye is put to the main test. Even when a 'dream' isn't totally working or memorable, or if there's just something not really engaging enough with it (even within the 'logic' of a dream), it's never tiring to look at. At this point in Kurosawa's career, following the towering masterwork Ran, here his mood is more reflective, dark, occasionally brooding, happy, and hopeful in equal measures.
For slow pace and too meticulous in film,I just will skip to overview it if I was alone. However,I keep my eye on the screen until it finished, Because some part of this movie really make me feel the special for this film. Afterall,this is a masterpiece for some of people.