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First, Soseki creates an air of anxiety increasingly and maximized in the novel, 「The seventh night」. He describes the color change of sea and wave: from blue to violet, and the violet becomes black at the end. Kurosawa shows fear and anxiety and maximized these in the movie, 「Mount Fuji In Red」 through the color change description also. He vividly expresses the color change of flowing lava, from dark red to bright red, at the volcanic outburst process in Mount Fuji. This can be considered that the writer and the movie director have generated the ultimate in artistry because they successfully express emotion and notion(idea), which are hard to draw, through the color change description. Second, characters in 「The seventh night」 and 「Mount Fuji In Red」 share a similarity to attempt to suicide into the sea by feeling severe anxiety. Third, “I” in 「The seventh night」 feel anxiety because modern science civilization and western culture have been flowed in and the conversation with a foreigner on a shipboard is not serious, not even exciting. “He” in 「Mount Fuji In Red」 feels anxiety because he is too concerned and feared of cataclysm and a radiation exposure from the volcanic outburst in Mount Fuji after the explosion of six nuclear power plants. Fourth and last, there is a difference between these two works. Soseki's work, as a novel, 「The seventh night」 in 『Ten Nights of Dream』 represents the anxiety of modern science civilization and western culture in 1908, which is the time of modern civilization flowing into Japan from the West. Kurosawa's work, 「Mount Fuji In Red」 in 『Dream』 is made in 1990 instead, which is the time of Japan has become the greatest advanced in the world in the economy and technology by absorbing the modern science civilization from the West. Kurosawa gets further to make a film representing the anxiety of radiation releases through a 'dream' as a medium.