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Day Dream
19814.11h 50m
Overview
Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist's waiting room. Though he is attracted to the woman, he says nothing to her. They are later in the same examining room. When he is given an anesthetic, he begins to imagine a series of scenes in which the woman undergoes various forms of sexual abuse, including rape and torture. When the artist recovers from the anesthetic, he finds clues showing that he may not have been hallucinating.
Directed by Tetsuji Takechi
Written by Junichirō Tanizaki, Tetsuji Takechi
Produced by Toshiyuki Ike, Ariyuki Maeda
0Top Cast
Kyōko Aizome
Woman
Kei Satō
Dentist
T
Takemi Katsushika
Junkichi Kurahashi
Saeda Kawaguchi
Nurse
S
Sengoro Shigeyama
Vagrant
Taiji Tonoyama
Guard
C
Chieda Kawaguchi
Y
Yuri Yau
Nurse
Themes & Keywords
remakeunsimulated sex
About Day Dream
Day Dream is a drama, fantasy, horror film released in 1981 exploring themes of remake, unsimulated sex. Directed by Tetsuji Takechi, it stars Kyōko Aizome, Kei Satō, Takemi Katsushika. Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist's waiting room. Though he is attracted to the woman, he says nothing to her. They are later in the same examining room. When he is given an anesthetic, he begins to imagine a series of scenes in which the woman undergoes various forms of sexual abuse, including rape and torture. When the artist recovers from the anesthetic, he finds clues showing that he may not have been hallucinating.
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