1. A film by
AKIRA KUROSAWACopy !req
2. DREAMSCopy !req
3. Presented by STEVEN SPIELBERG /
Amblin EntertainmentCopy !req
4. A KUROSAWA PRODUCTIONS FILMCopy !req
5. Produced by HISAO KUROSAWA
and MIKE Y. INOUECopy !req
6. Creative Consultant
ISHIRO HONDACopy !req
7. Cinematography by
TAKAO SAITO and SHOJI UEDACopy !req
8. Production Design by
YOSHIRO MURAKI, AKIRA SAKURAGICopy !req
9. Music by
SHINICHIRO IKEBECopy !req
10. Costumes by
EMI WADACopy !req
11. Chief Assistant Director
TAKASHI KOIZUMICopy !req
12. Production Manager
TERUYO NOGAMICopy !req
13. Starring
AKIRA TERAOCopy !req
14. MITSUKO BAISHOCopy !req
15. TOSHIE NEGISHI
MIEKO HARADACopy !req
16. MITSUNORI ISAKICopy !req
17. TOSHIHIKO NAKANO
YOSHITAKA ZUSHICopy !req
18. HISASHI IGAWACopy !req
19. CHOSUKE IKARIYA
CHISHU RYUCopy !req
20. MARTIN SCORSESECopy !req
21. Special Effects byCopy !req
22. Written and Directed by
AKIRA KUROSAWACopy !req
23. I HAD THE FOLLOWING DREAM...Copy !req
24. “Sunshine Through the Rain”Copy !req
25. You can't go out today.Copy !req
26. The sun is shining,
but it's raining.Copy !req
27. Foxes hold their weddings
on days like this.Copy !req
28. They hate it if anybody watches.Copy !req
29. Terrible things
will happen if you do.Copy !req
30. You saw it, didn't you?Copy !req
31. You saw something
you shouldn't have.Copy !req
32. I can't have
such a child in my house.Copy !req
33. An angry fox
came looking for you.Copy !req
34. He left this.Copy !req
35. You're to atone
by cutting your belly open.Copy !req
36. Go quickly
and ask their forgiveness.Copy !req
37. Give that back to them...Copy !req
38. and beg for your life
on your knees!Copy !req
39. They rarely forgive
even trivial things.Copy !req
40. You must go prepared
to die for your sin!Copy !req
41. Hurry now!Copy !req
42. Until they forgive you,Copy !req
43. I can't let you back in.Copy !req
44. But I don't know
where their home is.Copy !req
45. Of course you do.Copy !req
46. On days like this
there's always a rainbow.Copy !req
47. Their home
is beneath the rainbow.Copy !req
48. I HAD ANOTHER DREAM...Copy !req
49. “The Peach Orchard”Copy !req
50. - Take this, big sister.
- Thanks.Copy !req
51. Weren't there six of you?Copy !req
52. There were six of you before,
so I brought six servings.Copy !req
53. You made a mistake.
Here, you have this one.Copy !req
54. I already had mine.Copy !req
55. That's strange.Copy !req
56. I'm sure there were six.
Did someone leave?Copy !req
57. No.Copy !req
58. There really was another girl here.Copy !req
59. Stop acting so strange!Copy !req
60. Now leave us alone.Copy !req
61. - She's there!
- Who?Copy !req
62. - I don't know who she is.
- No one's there!Copy !req
63. She was right there!Copy !req
64. Have you got a fever again?Copy !req
65. No!
Just tell me who she is.Copy !req
66. Are you all right?Copy !req
67. Wait!Copy !req
68. Where are you going?
You're not supposed to go out!Copy !req
69. Little boy!Copy !req
70. We have something to tell you.Copy !req
71. Listen carefully.Copy !req
72. We're never going
to your house again.Copy !req
73. Why not?Copy !req
74. Your family...Copy !req
75. cut down all the peach treesCopy !req
76. in this orchard.Copy !req
77. The Doll Festival
is also a seasonal festival.Copy !req
78. It's the festival
of the peach trees.Copy !req
79. We dolls are personifications
of the peach tree.Copy !req
80. We're the spirit of the trees,
the life of the blossoms.Copy !req
81. If you cut down the peach trees,Copy !req
82. how can you hold a Doll Festival?Copy !req
83. Those vanished trees
are weeping in their sorrow.Copy !req
84. It's too late for tears!Copy !req
85. Let us not blame the boy.Copy !req
86. He wept for us
as we were being chopped down.Copy !req
87. He even tried to stop them.Copy !req
88. Because he'd get
no more peaches!Copy !req
89. You're wrong!Copy !req
90. I can buy peaches at the store!Copy !req
91. But where can you buy
a whole orchard in bloom?Copy !req
92. I loved this placeCopy !req
93. and the peach trees
that blossomed here.Copy !req
94. I knew I would
never see them again!Copy !req
95. That's why I cried!Copy !req
96. Very well. We understand.Copy !req
97. He is a good boy.Copy !req
98. Let us allow him to seeCopy !req
99. this peach orchard in bloom
one last time.Copy !req
100. I HAD ANOTHER DREAM...Copy !req
101. “The Blizzard”Copy !req
102. It's getting dark.Copy !req
103. Is it night again already?Copy !req
104. Don't be stupid!Copy !req
105. It hasn't been that long
since we set out.Copy !req
106. But we set out late.Copy !req
107. We overslept.Copy !req
108. That can't be.Copy !req
109. It's only 11:00.Copy !req
110. Your watch must be broken.Copy !req
111. No.Copy !req
112. The hands are moving.Copy !req
113. The snow makes it seem dark.Copy !req
114. It's turning into another blizzard!Copy !req
115. Come on, let's hurry!Copy !req
116. Are we on the right path?Copy !req
117. Yes.Copy !req
118. We'll be out of this gully soon.Copy !req
119. We're almost
at the advance camp.Copy !req
120. Enough!
I'm sick of hearing that!Copy !req
121. I've had it!Copy !req
122. Get up!Copy !req
123. Get up and walk!Copy !req
124. You call yourselves mountaineers?Copy !req
125. A little storm like this -
aren't you ashamed?Copy !req
126. Little storm?Copy !req
127. It's been three days!Copy !req
128. It's never going to let up.Copy !req
129. Nonsense!Copy !req
130. It won't stop!Copy !req
131. It's waiting for us to die!Copy !req
132. All right.Copy !req
133. We'll rest a bit.Copy !req
134. Someone's coming!Copy !req
135. It's true.Copy !req
136. Someone's coming!Copy !req
137. No one's coming.Copy !req
138. You're hallucinating.Copy !req
139. Don't fall asleep!Copy !req
140. You'll die if you fall asleep!Copy !req
141. Get up!Copy !req
142. Stay awake!Copy !req
143. Get up!Copy !req
144. You'll die if you sleep!Copy !req
145. Wake up...Copy !req
146. The snow is warm.Copy !req
147. The ice is hot.Copy !req
148. Wake up! Are you okay?Copy !req
149. Wake up!Copy !req
150. Wake up!Copy !req
151. Wake up!Copy !req
152. Look!Copy !req
153. Our camp!Copy !req
154. It's our camp!Copy !req
155. I HAD ANOTHER DREAM...Copy !req
156. “The Tunnel”Copy !req
157. Private Noguchi!Copy !req
158. Yes, sir!Copy !req
159. You're -Copy !req
160. Sir, did I...Copy !req
161. did I really die in action?Copy !req
162. I can't...Copy !req
163. I can't believe I'm really dead.Copy !req
164. I was discharged and went home.Copy !req
165. I ate the sweet rice cakes
my mom made for me.Copy !req
166. I remember it clearly.Copy !req
167. You told me that once before.Copy !req
168. You were shot, and you fainted.Copy !req
169. As I tended to you,
you woke up and told me that story.Copy !req
170. It was just...Copy !req
171. a dream you had
while unconscious.Copy !req
172. It was such a vivid tale.
I couldn't forget it.Copy !req
173. But five minutes later...Copy !req
174. you really did die.Copy !req
175. Understood, sir!Copy !req
176. But my mom and dad...Copy !req
177. still don't believe I'm dead.Copy !req
178. That's my home.Copy !req
179. My mom and dad...Copy !req
180. are still waiting for me there.Copy !req
181. But it's a fact.Copy !req
182. You were killed.Copy !req
183. It breaks my heart...Copy !req
184. but I have to be blunt:Copy !req
185. You died...Copy !req
186. in my arms.Copy !req
187. Noguchi!Copy !req
188. Platoon...Copy !req
189. halt!Copy !req
190. Salute the company commander!Copy !req
191. Present...Copy !req
192. arms!Copy !req
193. Order arms!Copy !req
194. Third Platoon reporting, sir.Copy !req
195. All present and accounted for.Copy !req
196. Listen to me!Copy !req
197. I understand...Copy !req
198. how you must feel.Copy !req
199. Nevertheless...Copy !req
200. the Third Platoon
was completely wiped out.Copy !req
201. You were all killed in action.Copy !req
202. Forgive me.Copy !req
203. I managed to survive.Copy !req
204. I can't even look you in the face.Copy !req
205. The responsibility
for your deaths...Copy !req
206. rests with me!Copy !req
207. I could blame it all...Copy !req
208. on the absurdity of war,Copy !req
209. or the inhumanity of the military.Copy !req
210. But to deny my own mistakes
and indecisiveness would be cowardly.Copy !req
211. That said...Copy !req
212. I was taken prisoner.Copy !req
213. And life in that camp gave me...Copy !req
214. a taste of the agonies of death.Copy !req
215. And...Copy !req
216. now...Copy !req
217. as I look at you...Copy !req
218. I taste that same bitterness again.Copy !req
219. Compared to your own suffering,Copy !req
220. mine must seem trivial.Copy !req
221. But I tell you this honestly:Copy !req
222. I wished...Copy !req
223. I had died with you.Copy !req
224. Please believe me
when I say that.Copy !req
225. I understand your resentment.Copy !req
226. I really do.Copy !req
227. To die in battle...Copy !req
228. is to die like a dog!Copy !req
229. But listen to me.Copy !req
230. What good is it wandering
among the living like this?Copy !req
231. I beg you!Copy !req
232. Go back!Copy !req
233. Go back and rest in peace.Copy !req
234. Third Platoon...Copy !req
235. about...Copy !req
236. face!Copy !req
237. Forward...Copy !req
238. march!Copy !req
239. I HAD ANOTHER DREAM...Copy !req
240. “Crows”Copy !req
241. Hello.Copy !req
242. Do you know
where Mr. Van Gogh lives?Copy !req
243. If it's him you're after,
he crossed the bridgeCopy !req
244. and went that way.Copy !req
245. Thank you.Copy !req
246. Be careful, sir.Copy !req
247. He just got out
of the lunatic asylum.Copy !req
248. You're Vincent van Gogh,
aren't you?Copy !req
249. I HAD ANOTHER DREAM...Copy !req
250. “Mount Fuji in Red”Copy !req
251. What's going on?Copy !req
252. What's happening?Copy !req
253. Has Fuji erupted?Copy !req
254. This is terrible!Copy !req
255. It's worse than that!Copy !req
256. Haven't you heard?Copy !req
257. The nuclear power plant exploded!Copy !req
258. There are six reactors.Copy !req
259. They're exploding one after another.Copy !req
260. This is Japan.
There's nowhere to run.Copy !req
261. I know that.
We can't escape.Copy !req
262. But we have to try.
We have no choice!Copy !req
263. We can't go any farther.Copy !req
264. But...Copy !req
265. what happened?Copy !req
266. Where did all those people go?Copy !req
267. Where did they run to?Copy !req
268. They're at the bottom of the sea.Copy !req
269. Those are dolphins.
Even they're trying to escape.Copy !req
270. Lucky them.Copy !req
271. They can swim away.Copy !req
272. It makes no difference.Copy !req
273. The radiation will get them
soon enough.Copy !req
274. Here it comes.Copy !req
275. The red is plutonium-239.Copy !req
276. One ten-millionth of a gram
will give you cancer.Copy !req
277. The yellow is strontium-90.Copy !req
278. It collects in your bone marrowCopy !req
279. and causes leukemia.Copy !req
280. The purple is cesium-137.Copy !req
281. It accumulates in the gonads,
causing genetic mutations.Copy !req
282. There's no telling
what you'll give birth to.Copy !req
283. People are such fools!Copy !req
284. Radiation was dangerous
because you couldn't see it,Copy !req
285. so they found a way to dye it.Copy !req
286. But that only confirms
you're going to die.Copy !req
287. It's just Death's calling card.Copy !req
288. Now, if you'll excuse me...Copy !req
289. Wait!Copy !req
290. Radiation doesn't kill you
right away, so maybe -Copy !req
291. Maybe nothing!
A slow death is even worse.Copy !req
292. Death is one thing for adults
who've lived their lives.Copy !req
293. But children haven't even
begun to live yet.Copy !req
294. Waiting to die from
radiation poisoning isn't living.Copy !req
295. They told us,
“Nuclear energy is safe.Copy !req
296. The danger lies in human error,Copy !req
297. not in nuclear energy itself.Copy !req
298. We won't allow any mistakes,
so don't worry.”Copy !req
299. It's unforgivable!Copy !req
300. Those bastards better hang for thisCopy !req
301. or I'll never die in peace!Copy !req
302. Don't worry.
The radiation will see to that.Copy !req
303. Please forgive me.Copy !req
304. I'm one of those who ought to hang.Copy !req
305. I HAD ANOTHER DREAM...Copy !req
306. “The Weeping Demon”Copy !req
307. You're human, eh?Copy !req
308. What's the matter?Copy !req
309. Are you a demon?Copy !req
310. I suppose I am.Copy !req
311. But I used to be human.Copy !req
312. What a world!Copy !req
313. What stupidity!Copy !req
314. Long ago...Copy !req
315. this here was a field of flowers.Copy !req
316. But then...Copy !req
317. the hydrogen bombs
and missiles...Copy !req
318. turned it into this desert!Copy !req
319. But recently...Copy !req
320. mysterious flowers
have begun to bloom...Copy !req
321. in areas covered in fallout.Copy !req
322. These are all dandelions.Copy !req
323. Dandelions?Copy !req
324. Monster dandelions.Copy !req
325. This is a rose.Copy !req
326. But the stern grows
from the center of the flowerCopy !req
327. and has another bud
growing from its tip.Copy !req
328. The radiation
scattered all around here...Copy !req
329. has left all these flowers...Copy !req
330. deformed and misshapen.Copy !req
331. But it's not just the flowers.Copy !req
332. Human beings too.Copy !req
333. Just look at me.Copy !req
334. Human beings are such idiots.Copy !req
335. We turned the Earth
into a dumping ground for toxic waste!Copy !req
336. There's no healthy nature leftCopy !req
337. anywhere on the planet.Copy !req
338. No birds, no animals, no fish.Copy !req
339. Except...Copy !req
340. a while back...Copy !req
341. I saw a rabbit with two faces...Copy !req
342. a one-eyed bird...Copy !req
343. and a fish covered in fur.Copy !req
344. What do you do for food?Copy !req
345. There is no food!Copy !req
346. We devour each other.Copy !req
347. The weak ones go first.Copy !req
348. My turn's coming soon.Copy !req
349. There's a class structure
even among demons.Copy !req
350. Those like meCopy !req
351. with one horn...Copy !req
352. inevitably get eaten
by those with two or three.Copy !req
353. Those who seized power
as human beings...Copy !req
354. the cunning and the shameless,Copy !req
355. rule the demon world as well.Copy !req
356. Fine!
Let them have their way.Copy !req
357. Let them grow
all the horns they want.Copy !req
358. Let them look
like terrifying freaks!Copy !req
359. Such are the torments of hell.Copy !req
360. It's worse than death.Copy !req
361. But they couldn't dieCopy !req
362. even if they wanted to.Copy !req
363. You see, it's a demon's karmaCopy !req
364. never to die.Copy !req
365. They must suffer forever...Copy !req
366. tortured for their sins.Copy !req
367. But me, I'll be eaten soon.Copy !req
368. No!Copy !req
369. I don't want to be eaten.Copy !req
370. That's why
I'm running away like this.Copy !req
371. But...Copy !req
372. I get so hungry...Copy !req
373. and become disgusted
with myself.Copy !req
374. I was a farmer when I was a man.Copy !req
375. I dumped tank trucks of milk
into the river to keep prices up.Copy !req
376. Onions, potatoes, cabbage -
I bulldozed them all under.Copy !req
377. I was so stupid!Copy !req
378. Hear that?Copy !req
379. When dusk comes...Copy !req
380. those big-shot demons howl in pain.Copy !req
381. Their horns hurt
like cancerous tumors.Copy !req
382. Enough to make them yearn
for a quick death.Copy !req
383. But since they can't die...Copy !req
384. all they can do is howl.Copy !req
385. Come, I'll show you.Copy !req
386. I'll show you how they howl.Copy !req
387. My horn's beginning to hurt too.Copy !req
388. Go now!Copy !req
389. Go where?Copy !req
390. You want to become a demon too?Copy !req
391. I HAD ANOTHER DREAM...Copy !req
392. “The Village of the Water Mills”Copy !req
393. Good day.Copy !req
394. Good day.Copy !req
395. Ah, good day.Copy !req
396. What's the name of this village?Copy !req
397. It doesn't have one.Copy !req
398. We just call it “the village.”Copy !req
399. But outsiders call it
“the village of the water mills.”Copy !req
400. Do all the villagers
live around here?Copy !req
401. No.Copy !req
402. We're spread all around.Copy !req
403. You don't have electricity?Copy !req
404. We don't need stuff like that.Copy !req
405. People are suckers for convenience.Copy !req
406. They think,
“The more convenient, the better,”Copy !req
407. and they end up
throwing out what's truly good.Copy !req
408. What do you do for light?Copy !req
409. We have candles and rapeseed oil.Copy !req
410. Isn't it dark at night?Copy !req
411. Night is supposed to be dark.Copy !req
412. We'd be in trouble
if night were as bright as day.Copy !req
413. I don't want a night so bright
that I can't see the stars.Copy !req
414. You have rice paddies...Copy !req
415. but I see no tillers
or harvesting machines.Copy !req
416. We don't need such things.Copy !req
417. We have cows and horses.Copy !req
418. What do you use for fuel?Copy !req
419. Firewood, mostly.Copy !req
420. We feel bad
chopping down living trees,Copy !req
421. but there are enough dead ones.Copy !req
422. We mainly just chop those
into firewood.Copy !req
423. And if you make charcoal
from the wood,Copy !req
424. just a few trees give
as much heat as a whole forest.Copy !req
425. And cow dung
makes good fuel too.Copy !req
426. As much as possible,Copy !req
427. we try to liveCopy !req
428. the natural way,
like people did in the past.Copy !req
429. These days...Copy !req
430. people have forgotten
they're a part of nature too.Copy !req
431. They can't live without nature,Copy !req
432. yet they meddle with it
and destroy it.Copy !req
433. They always think
they can create something better.Copy !req
434. Especially scientists.Copy !req
435. They may be smart...Copy !req
436. but so many of them
are completely deafCopy !req
437. to the beating of nature's heart.Copy !req
438. They work so hard inventing
things that make people unhappyCopy !req
439. and then pat themselves
on the back for it.Copy !req
440. Even worse,
the vast majority of peopleCopy !req
441. look at those idiotic inventions
as if they were miraclesCopy !req
442. and bow down before them.Copy !req
443. They don't notice
that nature is being lostCopy !req
444. and that they're heading
for extinction.Copy !req
445. The most important things
for human beingsCopy !req
446. are clean air and clean water...Copy !req
447. and the trees and grass
that produce them.Copy !req
448. But folks pollute everything,Copy !req
449. and it's lost forever.Copy !req
450. The polluted air and waterCopy !req
451. go on to pollute people's hearts.Copy !req
452. On my way here...Copy !req
453. I saw children
placing flowers on a stone.Copy !req
454. Why did they do that?Copy !req
455. Oh, that.Copy !req
456. I heard the story
from my late father.Copy !req
457. A very long time ago...Copy !req
458. an ailing travelerCopy !req
459. fell dead on that spot.Copy !req
460. The villagers took pityCopy !req
461. and buried him
right where he died.Copy !req
462. They placed that rock there
as a kind of tombstoneCopy !req
463. and offered flowers to it.Copy !req
464. It became a custom
that continues to this day.Copy !req
465. It isn't just the children.Copy !req
466. All the villagersCopy !req
467. put flowers there as they pass...Copy !req
468. without even knowing why
anymore.Copy !req
469. Is there a festival today?Copy !req
470. No, that's a funeral.Copy !req
471. You seem to find that odd.Copy !req
472. But a funeral is actually
a joyous occasion.Copy !req
473. It's good to live well
and work hardCopy !req
474. and then be congratulated
on a job well done.Copy !req
475. We have no temple or priest,Copy !req
476. so all the villagers gatherCopy !req
477. and carry the deceasedCopy !req
478. to the cemetery on the hill.Copy !req
479. Of course, it's different
if a child or young person dies.Copy !req
480. You can't really
call that auspicious.Copy !req
481. But fortunately...Copy !req
482. the people here lead
a natural way of lifeCopy !req
483. and most die in the order
in which they were born.Copy !req
484. The lady being buried todayCopy !req
485. died peacefully at the age of 99.Copy !req
486. In fact, I must go now
and join the procession.Copy !req
487. Please excuse me.Copy !req
488. To tell you the truth,Copy !req
489. she was my first love.Copy !req
490. But she broke my heartCopy !req
491. and married another guy.Copy !req
492. By the way, how old are you?Copy !req
493. Me?Copy !req
494. One hundred plus three.Copy !req
495. A pretty good age
to leave the human race.Copy !req
496. Listen, people go on
about how hard life is,Copy !req
497. but that's just a lot of talk.Copy !req
498. Honestly, it's good to be alive.Copy !req
499. It's quite exciting.Copy !req
500. THE ENDCopy !req