Day Dream

Top 8 Billed Cast

Kyōko Aizome
愛染恭子

Woman

Kei Satō
佐藤慶

Dentist

Takemi Katsushika
Takemi Katsushika

Junkichi Kurahashi

Saeda Kawaguchi
Saeda Kawaguchi

Nurse

Sengoro Shigeyama
茂山千之丞

Vagrant

Taiji Tonoyama
殿山泰司

Guard

Chieda Kawaguchi
Chieda Kawaguchi

Yuri Yau
Yuri Yau

Nurse

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1981-09-12

  • Average

    4.385

  • Rating:

    2.2 starts
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  • Languages:

    日本語
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