This Week’s Film: Dreams
Cuisine: Japanese

After an already long and illustrious career as a writer and director, at age 80, Akira Kurosawa enjoyed yet another success with Dreams, an eight-part collage of vignettes from his own dreams. They include: Sunshine Through The Rain, a fox tale; The Peach Orchard, based upon the Girls’ Day celebration known as Hina Matsuri, the Doll Festival; The Blizzard, in which four men climb a mountain in a heavy snowstorm; The Tunnel, a nightmare about the return of a soldier from the war; Crows, a dream that features Martin Scorsese as Vincent Van Gogh and visual effects by George Lucas; Mount Fuji in Red, another nightmare about a nuclear melt-down; The Weeping Demon, a post-apocalyptic nightmare based upon a fable of the same name; and finally, Village of the Watermills, in which a village community has returned to the rustic way of life.

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