Madadayo (No, Not Yet!) in 35mm

“Any description of dreams in mere words cannot capture their expressive power.”

—Akira Kurosawa, 1993  

Inspired by a passage in a novel by Fjodor Dostoevsky “where he talks about dreams and the fact that they express our deepest fears and greatest hopes,” Dreams is a visually sumptuous entry in the latter half of the filmmaker’s career. Divided into eight chapters reflecting dreams from Kurosawa’s childhood through his late seventies, this impressionistic wonder was released, appropriately, the year after the director received an Honorary Oscar from the Academy “for cinematic accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched, and entertained worldwide audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world.”