Review of Ten Nights of Dreams

Such variety of styles, paces, technical devices... Everyone who is not looking just for cheap fun should be able to find something for himself, yet I am sure nobody will like all the segments. On the other hand, every segment will be a favorite for someone... I read the Soseki book just before watching the movie and I highly recommend this order of moves. Each story is only a few pages long. However only the Ichikawa segment is more-or-less straight adaptation of the second story; others use the stories only to begin with and develop their own visions of them. The eight segment is another extreme: at least I could not make any connection with the barbershop story. Some segments are creepy, some just funny. What is common to all stories/segments is that they are philosophical, each addressing one universal topic of the human life.