This is one of my favorite films, and I'm wondering if others' preferences are similar to mine:
Favorite Dream: Village of the Watermills (and closing credits)
Second Favorite: Sunshine Through the Rain
Close Third: The Peach Orchard.
What say you?
The Peach Orchard. I live in Japan and I have been searching for the piece music that was used for years. The Fox wedding is the second. Actually I really only watch those 2 parts over and over.
shareMy favourite 'dreams' were Village of the Watermills, Crows and The Tunnel.
shareIt's a tough decision for me. My picks for my favorite would be either "The Weeping Demon" or "The Tunnel."
share1- The Tunnel
2- The Weeping Demon
3- Mt Fuji in Red
4- The Village of Watermills
5- The Blizzard
6- Sunshine Through the Rain
7- The Crow
8- The Orchard
ALl of it I guess, but that is the order....
I like the village of watermills the best. It is very colorful and the gaiety at the funeral.
I also like the tunnel. Just imagine the difficulty of explaining death to a dog!!
Mt. Fuji in Red is too preach-y for my taste. Same with the Weeping Demon. However, I think all or most of the segments are preach-y in one way or the other.
The Crow is beautiful while the Foxes Wedding is very stylized.
The one you're remembering as The Foxes Wedding is actually called Sunshine through the Rain. From the Dreams wikipedia page: "There is an old legend in Japan that states that when the sun is shining through the rain, the foxes have their weddings."
shareI liked The Blizzard.
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Village of the watermills and the peach orchard for sure.
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The warriors#7 scout THE FOX
1- The Village of Watermills
2- The Weeping Demon
3- The Tunnel
4- Mt Fuji in Red
This was an interesting film, because I felt that while the dreams could stand on their own, they weren't really explicitly connected.
Therefore, I only seemed to be able to enjoy the film as a collection of short films, some of which I liked, and some of which I didn't.
I thought these were the best:
The Crows
Mount Fuji in Red
The Tunnel
I loved these three parts because of their surrealism, which, to me, is what dreams are all about. I think most of us have had dreams involving cataclysmic disasters (as in Mt. Fuji), while tunnels often appeared in my childhood dreams (and I love it here how the tunnel is used as a metaphor for death). As for the Van Gogh episode, it was just great seeing the character walk through Van Gogh's paintings, with some of them coming to life.
Unfortunately, I didn't really get into the other parts as much. I guess I got something out of the first episode, with the mother rejecting her son (I don't know if that was the point of the episode, but it does bear similarity to dreams I've had), but the whole thing with the foxes, and then the dolls, may have been a cultural Japanese thing that I struggled to empathise with. The Mountain and The Weeping Demon just seemed completely enigmatic - I just didn't get what the 'point' was in either episode. The final segment was a fairly fitting ending to the film, although came across as a little silly in parts.
To me It doesn't feel right to force Akira's dreams to compete against each other for favorite to least favorite. Each of the dreams are very different from one another.
While I found "The Tunnel" to be a very powerful and meaningful dream that has stuck with me for quite some time, I find myself re-watching "The Village of Watermills" regularly rather then the gloomier dreams. I think Akira's dreams show us how our world could be, how our world is and how our world should be. They are all required to give (what I think was) the desired effect.