Akira dts sound edition free#
Film grain, though fine, remains and its rendering is clean and free of noise. The DVD wasn’t terrible but the improvement in detail here helps this sequence tremendously, where the snowflakes look a bit more natural and less clumped together: you can make out individual flakes. Another sequence that looks far better is the snow sequence featuring the snow spirit (a Yuki Onna) trying to lull “I” to sleep. We get an incredible amount of clarity here, a high level of detail in every shot, with long shots that looked a bit fuzzy on the Warner DVD looking to have received the biggest enhancement: the improvement in detail with the iconic rainbow shot, the fields in the Van Gogh sequence, and the scene with the peach tree spirits is breathtaking. The people who worked on this transfer and restoration really do deliver. It’s an incredible, colourful looking film and I don’t think I could be any happier with what Criterion has done with this restoration. Though I am in way saying Kurosawa’s other films are not visual-they most certainly are- Dreams is far more about its visuals than any of his other films, and the level of detail in not just every vignette but every shot. The film has no real narrative, instead made up of eight vignettes supposedly inspired by dreams the filmmaker had had throughout his life (with a bit of a folktale feel to them), which his surrogate character, simply called “I,” wanders through. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation is sourced from a new 4K scan taken from the original 35mm camera negative.įor audiences used to Kurosawa’s early work, even up to Ran, Dreams is a very different beast. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams receives a much needed Blu-ray release thanks to Criterion, who present the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on this dual-layer disc.