Movie

Dreams

“The past, present, and future. The thoughts and images of one man... for all men. One man's dreams... for every dreamer.”

★ 7.7(556)19901h 59m

Fantasy Drama

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Dreams is available to rent or buy on Apple TV Store and Amazon Video in Mexico. It isn't on a subscription streaming service there yet. Availability checked 12 June 2026.

Where to watch Dreams

🇲🇽 Mexico

Good to know

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Release date: 1990-05-11
Runtime: 1h 59m
Language: English
Box office: $2,970,161
Budget: $12,000,000
Status: Released
Country: Japan
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Dreams — trailer

About Dreams

Dreams is a 1990 movie in the Fantasy and Drama genres, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho and Toshie Negishi. It has a runtime of 1 hour 59 minutes. It holds an average rating of 7.7/10 from 556 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Dreams in Mexico — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

Cast

Akira Terao

Mitsuko Baisho

Mother of 'I'

Toshie Negishi

Mother carrying child

Mieko Harada

The Snow Fairy

Mitsunori Isaki

Young I

Toshihiko Nakano

Child I

Yoshitaka Zushi

Pvt. Noguchi

Hisashi Igawa

Nuclear Plant Worker

Chosuke Ikariya

Crying Demon

Chishū Ryū

Old Man

Martin Scorsese

Vincent Van Gogh

Masayuki Yui

Member of Climbing Team

Themes & keywords

life and deathartistvolcanonuclear power plantanthologymagic realismdream worldcatastrophekidsmount fuji, japancrowsambivalentcomplicatedfamiliarthe weeping demon