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This film is for sure a unique masterpiece from one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. This film contains of seven histories that although they seem to be unlinked, they all together story the destruction of the nature as we know it. They show what will happen if humans continue not to respect Earth. But apart from its social message this film has a unique art value. Especially the part with Van Gong (pleasant surprise Martin Scorsese's acting) and the part with the nuclear disaster are very sentimental with a very simple way and the way that Kurosawa shows them is really fantastic! Surely one of the best films of 1990 decade and unfortunately not recognised in its time as usually happen with all great art masterpieces.

This excellent film stories the long way of the returning in occupied Greece of a group of soldiers that fought the Germans in World War 2, after the relatively orders of the Greek army in Athens. The film shows with a unique way the depression that the war caused to this people that were fighting the enemy in the front line of war without thinking any positive thing for many days. It shows their loss of positive emotions and how memories of their old life (wives, girlfriends, daily routine, etc.) are hurting them because they know that this life won't be there when they finally arrive at home. Some of them go crazy or die before the arrival in their occupied home. The other ones are walking exhausted through the mountains of Greece and the only thing they see is snow, ruined villages from bombings or German attacks and a nature that is to die. All these, the fantastic cinematography and the deep analysis that the director does in its characters' psychology make this film a great present to the war filmography.