Thursday, April 28, 2016

Journey's Dream, After Dream is Japan's Yume, Yume No Ato

Journey's mostly instrumental album, "Dream, After Dream" was a soundtrack for a Japanese movie of the same title. In Japan it's called Yume, Yume No Ato and it was released on January 24, 1981 in both Japan and France and runs 101 minutes long.

Yume, Yume No Ato  1981 screening program
In this fantasy tale that aspires to the effects of a dreaming state, a young man (Enrico Tricarico) starts off on a quest for happiness, heading south as a wise astrologer told him to do. He has a few mishaps along the way through a mix of scenery, but finally arrives at an ancient castle where two mysterious women live - Tsuki (Anicee Alvina) meaning "Moon," and Yuki (Anne Consigny), meaning "Snow." Both women fall in love with the young man, a literally transforming experience that causes them to start running around and flapping their arms and growing feathers - it turns out they are really birds and true love has freed them at last. Meanwhile, the young man has to face his destiny and after the avian extravaganza, he may have some cause for worry.






Production Credits
Directed by - Kenzo Takada
Written by - Xavier De Castella, Kenzo Takada
Produced by - Hiroaki Fuji
producer - Tatsuo Funahashi
Set Designer - Tatsuji Nakashizu
Sound/Sound Designer - Senji Horiuchi
Sound Recordist - Julien Cloquet
Composer (Music Score) - Journey
Original Music - Neal Schon
Cinematographer - Setsuo Kobayashi






Cast
  
Anicée Alvina - Tsuki
Léo Campion - Fortuneteller
Anne Consigny - Yuki
Liliana Gerace - Governess
Enrico Tricarico - Young man












4 comments:

  1. How I wish to see even just a tralier of that movie if not the lost movie itself.

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    1. Same here. I've been looking for the movie for a couple of years now to no avail. Great soundtrack nevertheless.

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    2. It's not available on DVD or even VHS, as per director's wishes. Shame, really, this looks like a film that deserves more exposure.

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  2. I am watching a grainy copy of it right now on YouTube if you look up dream after dream movie soundtrack by Journey 27 December 1980 VHS rip version partial

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