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* MoodDissonance: The wedding procession at the start and the funeral procession at the end have the opposite tones than what you would expect. The wedding procession of the foxes is silent, slow and subtly threatening. The funeral procession is lively and joyful with upbeat singing and playing.
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* NuclearNasty: The protagonist in "The Weeping Demon" finds a band of mutant "demons", who are actually humans that mutated and grew horns after being exposed to radiation. With nothing else organic around except for giant dandelions, they've resorted to eating each other.
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* NuclearNasty: NuclearMutant: The protagonist in "The Weeping Demon" finds a band of mutant "demons", who are actually humans that mutated and grew horns after being exposed to radiation. With nothing else organic around except for giant dandelions, they've resorted to eating each other.
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* AsianFoxSpirit: In "Sunshine Through the Rain" the rebellious boy goes into the woods against orders and sees a kitsune wedding procession.
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* {{Kitsune}}: The mystical spirits--basically, foxlike humanoids--from Japanese mythology. In "Sunshine Through the Rain" the rebellious boy goes into the woods against orders and sees a kitsune wedding procession.
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* MentalStory: If you imagine the "dreams" to be actual dreams, then they are Mental Stories as they all take place in the protagonist's head.
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* AscendedFanboy: Martin Scorsese leapt at the chance to be directed by one of his all-time favorite directors.
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* "Sunshine Through the Rain": On a rainy day, a little boy's mother warns him not to go outside, and especially not to go into the woods, as that is when the foxes like to have their [[SeriousBusiness weddings]]. The predictable results.
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* "Sunshine Through the Rain": On a rainy day, a little boy's mother warns him not to go outside, and especially not to go into the woods, as that is when the foxes like to have their weddings.[[SeriousBusiness weddings]]. The predictable results.
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* "The Blizzard": Four mountaineers apparently bit off more than they can chew, as they are stuck in the middle of a howling blizzard that has lasted for three days. Three of the men give up and sit down to die. The fourth goes on for a little while before stumbling and falling in the snow. He then sees a figure from Japanese mythology: the ''yuki-onna'' snow maiden.
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* "The Blizzard": Four mountaineers apparently bit off more than they can chew, as they are stuck in the middle of a howling blizzard that has lasted for three days. Three of the men give up and sit down to die. The fourth goes on for a little while before stumbling and falling in the snow. He then sees a figure from Japanese mythology: the ''yuki-onna'' ''YukiOnna'' snow maiden.
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* {{Arcadia}}: The village in "Village of the Watermills" is a perfect example of Arcadia, a bucolic little hamlet beside a river where the villagers live in peace and harmony with nature.
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* {{Arcadia}}: The village in "Village of the Watermills" Water Mills" is a perfect example of Arcadia, a bucolic little hamlet beside a river where the villagers live in peace and harmony with nature.
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* LuddWasRight: The old man in "Village of the Watermills" tells the visitor that the people of the village live without electricity or technology of any kind, which allows them to live in peace and harmony with nature, and to a ripe old age (it seems most of them live to be a hundred).
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* LuddWasRight: The old man in "Village of the Watermills" Water Mills" tells the visitor that the people of the village live without electricity or technology of any kind, which allows them to live in peace and harmony with nature, and to a ripe old age (it seems most of them live to be a hundred).
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* "Village of the Waterfalls" A backpacker wanders into a rustic village with water mills turning in a peaceful stream. He meets a 103-year-old resident of the town (played by Chishū Ryu) who tells him that the village lives without modern technology, in harmony with nature.
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* WeaponizedAnimal: The officer in "The Tunnel" is greeted in front of the tunnel by a barking, growling, teeth-baring Japanese anti-tank dog--note the explosive charges the dog is carrying. The Japanese practiced this in the final days of World War II as a desperation tactic to oppose the imminent American invasion, the one that never happened after they surrendered following the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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* AfterTheEnd: "The Weeping Demon" finds Japan a barren post-apocalyptic wasteland, a ruin populated mostly by mutants.
* {{Arcadia}}: The village in "Village of the Watermills" is a perfect example of Arcadia, a bucolic little hamlet beside a river where the villagers live in peace and harmony with nature.
* TheCameo: Yep, that's Creator/MartinScorsese as Vincent Van Gogh.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: In "Mount Fuji in Red", dialogue indicates that the various radioisotopes being released by the nuclear reactors were dyed different colors to make them easier to see. This is [[ArtisticLicensePhysics absolute nonsense scientifically]] but allows for a terrifying visual as the man, the woman, and her child cower on the beach as billowing clouds of red plutonium-239 approach.
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* DreamSequence: Despite the title and the supposed premise, this trope is mostly avoided. The only short that one might describe as dreamlike is "Crows", and specifically the sequence where the man goes into a painting.
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* DownerEnding: "Mount Fuji in Red" ends with the man, the woman, and her child trapped on the edge of the ocean, doomed to die as they're enveloped by a radioactive cloud.
* DreamSequence: Despite the title and the supposed premise, this trope is mostly avoided. The only short that one might describe as dreamlike is "Crows", and specifically thesequence scene where the man goes into a painting.painting. He then finds Vincent Van Gogh speaking English, before an even weirder sequence where he goes tripping through several Van Gogh paintings.
* DreamSequence: Despite the title and the supposed premise, this trope is mostly avoided. The only short that one might describe as dreamlike is "Crows", and specifically the
* EmpathyDollShot: An abandoned BabyCarriage is among the detritus left behind by the fleeing crowds in "Mount Fuji in Red".
* FantasticRacism: Unbelievably, the mutant in "The Weeping Demon" tells the man that there's a caste system among the mutants. The more horns you have, the higher your caste. With his one horn he is on the low rung of mutant cannibal society.
* FantasticRacism: Unbelievably, the mutant in "The Weeping Demon" tells the man that there's a caste system among the mutants. The more horns you have, the higher your caste. With his one horn he is on the low rung of mutant cannibal society.
* {{Hellevator}}: Or rather a tunnel, but it seems like "The Tunnel" is a portal to some other world. It is dark and spooky. The far end is lit by a single ''red'' light bulb that bathes everything with an eerie red glow that is reminiscent of Hell. And once the officer emerges from the tunnel, he is confronted by the ghosts of his platoon.
* AnIcePerson: The yuki-onna snow demon, a figure of Japanese mythology who appears to the mountaineer and seems to want him to freeze to death.
* ILoveNuclearPower: Overall, the nuclear war that wiped out Japan in "The Weeping Demon" was a pretty bad deal, but it did create ten foot tall dandelions.
* ImAHumanitarian: Although it may not count since the "demons" aren't human anymore. But in any case, the demons in "The Weeping Demon" are eating each other because there's nothing else.
* AnIcePerson: The yuki-onna snow demon, a figure of Japanese mythology who appears to the mountaineer and seems to want him to freeze to death.
* ILoveNuclearPower: Overall, the nuclear war that wiped out Japan in "The Weeping Demon" was a pretty bad deal, but it did create ten foot tall dandelions.
* ImAHumanitarian: Although it may not count since the "demons" aren't human anymore. But in any case, the demons in "The Weeping Demon" are eating each other because there's nothing else.
* LuddWasRight: The old man in "Village of the Watermills" tells the visitor that the people of the village live without electricity or technology of any kind, which allows them to live in peace and harmony with nature, and to a ripe old age (it seems most of them live to be a hundred).
* NuclearNasty: The protagonist in "The Weeping Demon" finds a band of mutant "demons", who are actually humans that mutated and grew horns after being exposed to radiation. With nothing else organic around except for giant dandelions, they've resorted to eating each other.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The officer in "The Tunnel" is greeted by the spirits of his dead platoon. They look like the standard walking corpse stereotype, green skin and dark circles under their eyes, but they don't know that they're dead. Poor Private Noguchi pleads with the officer to tell him that it isn't true, because his mom and dad are still at home waiting for him.
* PortalPicture:
** In "Crows" the protagonist is admiring "[[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_-_Pont_de_Langlois_-_Kröller-Müller.jpg#mw-jump-to-license Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing]]" when somehow he plunges into the painting, and he is there, in the scene watching the women washing on the banks of the Arles Canal.
** It gets weirder later in the film, as the protagonist finds himself running through several two-dimensional Van Gogh paintings, some of which are abstract sketches on white canvas.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The officer in "The Tunnel" is greeted by the spirits of his dead platoon. They look like the standard walking corpse stereotype, green skin and dark circles under their eyes, but they don't know that they're dead. Poor Private Noguchi pleads with the officer to tell him that it isn't true, because his mom and dad are still at home waiting for him.
* PortalPicture:
** In "Crows" the protagonist is admiring "[[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_-_Pont_de_Langlois_-_Kröller-Müller.jpg#mw-jump-to-license Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing]]" when somehow he plunges into the painting, and he is there, in the scene watching the women washing on the banks of the Arles Canal.
** It gets weirder later in the film, as the protagonist finds himself running through several two-dimensional Van Gogh paintings, some of which are abstract sketches on white canvas.
* SurvivorGuilt: It turns out that the captain in "The Tunnel" is the only survivor of his platoon; the rest were killed to the last man. He expresses shame over this. (Left unanswered is just how an officer happened to survive whatever action wiped out the rest of his platoon, but cowardice is hinted at.)
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* WasOnceAMan: The mutant "demon" in "The Weeping Demon" explains that he was once a man, before the radiation from nuclear war mutated him into a monster.
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* WasOnceAMan: The mutant "demon" in "The Weeping Demon" explains that he was once a man, before the radiation from nuclear war mutated him into a monster.monster.
* WeaponizedAnimal: The officer in "The Tunnel" is greeted in front of the tunnel by a barking, growling, teeth-baring Japanese anti-tank dog--note the explosive charges the dog is carrying. The Japanese practiced this in the final days of World War II as a desperation tactic to oppose the imminent American invasion, the one that never happened after they surrendered following the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
* WeaponizedAnimal: The officer in "The Tunnel" is greeted in front of the tunnel by a barking, growling, teeth-baring Japanese anti-tank dog--note the explosive charges the dog is carrying. The Japanese practiced this in the final days of World War II as a desperation tactic to oppose the imminent American invasion, the one that never happened after they surrendered following the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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* DontGoIntoTheWoods: The little boy in the first film disregards his mother's warning and goes into the woods. He sees something he's not supposed to.
* GreenAesop: Four of the eight vignettes are about either respecting and taking care of nature, or the tragedies that ensue when we don't.
* {{Harakiri}}: The surprisingly unsympathetic mom in the first sequence gives the boy a harakiri knife dropped off by the kitsune, and tells him that he has to disembowel himself, and his only option is to go to the kitsune and beg for mercy.
* {{Harakiri}}: The surprisingly unsympathetic mom in the first sequence gives the boy a harakiri knife dropped off by the kitsune, and tells him that he has to disembowel himself, and his only option is to go to the kitsune and beg for mercy.
* NatureSpirit: In RealLife, the hinamatsuri doll festival is strongly associated with peach trees, as it used to take place during the time of year where peach trees bloom in Japan. In "The Peach Orchard" the boy, following the mysterious girl, comes to the place where the peach orchard used to be, and finds the spirits of the dolls, which are actually the spirits of the peach trees. They are very angry about being cut down. At the end he sees one young sapling peach tree in bloom, that being connected to the mysterious young girl he followed to the orchard in the first place.
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* ThematicSeries: Five of the eight films are {{Green Aesop}}s with general themes about respecting nature, taking care of nature, and not scattering nuclear waste around. There also seems to be a loose connection about the progress of life from childhood to old age. The first two are centered around children, and while the man in the last segment isn't old, he meets a 103-year-old man who talks about how precious life is.
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* ThematicSeries: Five Four of the eight films are {{Green Aesop}}s with general themes about respecting nature, taking care of nature, and not scattering nuclear waste around. There also seems to be a loose connection about the progress of life from childhood to old age. The first two are centered around children, and while the man in the last segment isn't old, he meets a 103-year-old man who talks about how precious life is.
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* "The Blizzard": Four mountaineers apparently bit off more than they can chew, as they are stuck in the middle of a howling blizzard that has lasted for three days. Three of the men give up and sit down to die. The fourth goes on for a little while before stumbling and falling in the snow. He then sees a figure from Japanese mythology: the ''yuki-onna'' snow maiden. Starting with this sequence, the adult protagonists are all played by the same actor (Akira Terao).
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* AuthorAvatar: All the protagonists, with the possible exception of the IJA officer, are meant to be avatars of Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa loved painting and mountain climbing and was anti-nuclear power, and he was known for wearing hats just like the adult protagonist in six of these films. The only possible exception may be the officer, as Kurosawa never served in the military (in fact, he got his start as a director at Creator/Toho during World War II).
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* AnthologyFilm: Eight short films directed by Akira Kurosawa.
* AuthorAvatar: All the protagonists, with the possible exception of the IJA officer, are meant to be avatars of Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa loved painting and mountain climbing and was anti-nuclear power, and he was known for wearing hats just like the adult protagonist in six of these films. Starting with the third sequence, all the adult protagonists are played by the same actor (Akira Terao). The only possible exception may be the officer, as Kurosawa never served in the military (in fact, he got his start as a director atCreator/Toho Creator/{{Toho}} during World War II).II).
* BilingualBonus: For Westerners, who might not know that the name seen above the gate in the first sequence is "Kurosawa".
* AuthorAvatar: All the protagonists, with the possible exception of the IJA officer, are meant to be avatars of Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa loved painting and mountain climbing and was anti-nuclear power, and he was known for wearing hats just like the adult protagonist in six of these films. Starting with the third sequence, all the adult protagonists are played by the same actor (Akira Terao). The only possible exception may be the officer, as Kurosawa never served in the military (in fact, he got his start as a director at
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* AndIMustScream: The demons in "The Weeping Demon" can't die. They are left howling in agony because of their horns, which are terribly painful. They ''can'' be killed however, which is why the demon who talks to the man wonders if maybe it would be better if the other demons ate him.
* AuthorAvatar: All the protagonists, with the possible exception of the IJA officer, are meant to be avatars of Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa loved painting and mountain climbing and was anti-nuclear power, and he was known for wearing hats just like the adult protagonist in six of these films. The only possible exception may be the officer, as Kurosawa never served in the military (in fact, he got his start as a director at Creator/Toho during World War II).
* AuthorAvatar: All the protagonists, with the possible exception of the IJA officer, are meant to be avatars of Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa loved painting and mountain climbing and was anti-nuclear power, and he was known for wearing hats just like the adult protagonist in six of these films. The only possible exception may be the officer, as Kurosawa never served in the military (in fact, he got his start as a director at Creator/Toho during World War II).
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* BreatherEpisode: After two heavy downer episodes dealing with different kinds of nuclear apocalypse, the film concludes with "Village of the Waterfalls", in which a traveler has a nice visit to a quiet, lovely rustic village.
* ChekhovsVolcano: Subverted in "Mount Fuji in Red". It looks like the volcano is erupting, but it's actually the six reactors of a nuclear power plant.
* DrivenToSuicide: The older man in "Mount Fuji in Red" hurls himself into the ocean rather than die a slow death from the radiation billowing towards them.
* GaveUpTooSoon: The mountaineer's three companions, as the storm finally breaks and reveals that they were no more than twenty meters away from their tent. Luckily they hadn't frozen to death yet.
* ChekhovsVolcano: Subverted in "Mount Fuji in Red". It looks like the volcano is erupting, but it's actually the six reactors of a nuclear power plant.
* DrivenToSuicide: The older man in "Mount Fuji in Red" hurls himself into the ocean rather than die a slow death from the radiation billowing towards them.
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''Akira Kurosawa's Dreams'' (aka ''Dreams'') is a 1990 film from Japan directed by Creator/MichaelBay--no, just kidding, it was directed by Creator/AkiraKurosawa.
It is a collection of eight loosely related vignettes supposedly adapted from, or at least inspired by, the dreams of Akira Kurosawa. The eight stories are:
* "Sunshine Through the Rain": On a rainy day, a little boy's mother warns him not to go outside, and especially not to go into the woods, as that is when the foxes like to have their weddings. The predictable results.
* "The Peach Orchard": A slightly older boy sees a mysterious girl in the household while his sister and her friends are celebrating the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri Hinamatsuri]]" ("Dolls' Day") festival. He follows the strange girl out to the remains of the nearby peach orchard, which his family chopped down.
* "The Blizzard": Four mountaineers apparently bit off more than they can chew, as they are stuck in the middle of a howling blizzard that has lasted for three days. Three of the men give up and sit down to die. The fourth goes on for a little while before stumbling and falling in the snow. He then sees a figure from Japanese mythology: the ''yuki-onna'' snow maiden. Starting with this sequence, the adult protagonists are all played by the same actor (Akira Terao).
* "The Tunnel": An officer from the Imperial Japanese Army is walking home after the end of World War II. After going through a spooky pedestrian tunnel, he encounters some literal ghosts from his past.
* "Crows": A man checking out a Creator/VincentVanGogh exhibit at an art gallery somehow plunges into one of Van Gogh's paintings and into 19th century France. There he meets Van Gogh himself (played by, believe it or not, Creator/MartinScorsese speaking English).
* "Mount Fuji in Red": Atomic holocaust strikes Japan, as six nuclear reactors in a power plant explode, spewing radiation everywhere. The populace flees in panic, ending with an older man, a younger man, and a mother and child cowering by the seashore.
* "The Weeping Demon": A man is wandering around barren, post-apocalyptic Japan after another kind of nuclear holocaust, namely nuclear war. He meets a "demon", specifically, a man who has mutated due to the radiation and is now growing a horn out of his head.
* "Village of the Waterfalls" A backpacker wanders into a rustic village with water mills turning in a peaceful stream. He meets a 103-year-old resident of the town (played by Chishū Ryu) who tells him that the village lives without modern technology, in harmony with nature.
Produced by Creator/StevenSpielberg, a Kurosawa fan who got Warner Brothers to fund the project.
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* BookEnds: The first sequence features a wedding procession; the last, a funeral procession.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "Mount Fuji in Red" was filmed four years after the UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} disaster.
* WasOnceAMan: The mutant "demon" in "The Weeping Demon" explains that he was once a man, before the radiation from nuclear war mutated him into a monster.
It is a collection of eight loosely related vignettes supposedly adapted from, or at least inspired by, the dreams of Akira Kurosawa. The eight stories are:
* "Sunshine Through the Rain": On a rainy day, a little boy's mother warns him not to go outside, and especially not to go into the woods, as that is when the foxes like to have their weddings. The predictable results.
* "The Peach Orchard": A slightly older boy sees a mysterious girl in the household while his sister and her friends are celebrating the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri Hinamatsuri]]" ("Dolls' Day") festival. He follows the strange girl out to the remains of the nearby peach orchard, which his family chopped down.
* "The Blizzard": Four mountaineers apparently bit off more than they can chew, as they are stuck in the middle of a howling blizzard that has lasted for three days. Three of the men give up and sit down to die. The fourth goes on for a little while before stumbling and falling in the snow. He then sees a figure from Japanese mythology: the ''yuki-onna'' snow maiden. Starting with this sequence, the adult protagonists are all played by the same actor (Akira Terao).
* "The Tunnel": An officer from the Imperial Japanese Army is walking home after the end of World War II. After going through a spooky pedestrian tunnel, he encounters some literal ghosts from his past.
* "Crows": A man checking out a Creator/VincentVanGogh exhibit at an art gallery somehow plunges into one of Van Gogh's paintings and into 19th century France. There he meets Van Gogh himself (played by, believe it or not, Creator/MartinScorsese speaking English).
* "Mount Fuji in Red": Atomic holocaust strikes Japan, as six nuclear reactors in a power plant explode, spewing radiation everywhere. The populace flees in panic, ending with an older man, a younger man, and a mother and child cowering by the seashore.
* "The Weeping Demon": A man is wandering around barren, post-apocalyptic Japan after another kind of nuclear holocaust, namely nuclear war. He meets a "demon", specifically, a man who has mutated due to the radiation and is now growing a horn out of his head.
* "Village of the Waterfalls" A backpacker wanders into a rustic village with water mills turning in a peaceful stream. He meets a 103-year-old resident of the town (played by Chishū Ryu) who tells him that the village lives without modern technology, in harmony with nature.
Produced by Creator/StevenSpielberg, a Kurosawa fan who got Warner Brothers to fund the project.
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* BookEnds: The first sequence features a wedding procession; the last, a funeral procession.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "Mount Fuji in Red" was filmed four years after the UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} disaster.
* WasOnceAMan: The mutant "demon" in "The Weeping Demon" explains that he was once a man, before the radiation from nuclear war mutated him into a monster.
