Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan, United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- life and death
- artist
- volcano
- nuclear power plant
- anthology
- magic realism
- dream world
- catastrophe
- kids
- mount fuji
- japan
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Akira Terao
I
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
- Tetsuo Yamashita — Second Lieutenant
- Misato Tate — Peach Trees' Fairy
- Catherine Cadou — Woman in the Fields
- Directed
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written
- Akira Kurosawa
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 567 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Kurosawa Production, Akira Kurosawa USA
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
