Daydream (1981-Japan)
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- Movie: Daydream
- Romaji: Hakujitsumu
- Japanese: 白日夢
- Director: Tetsuji Takechi
- Writer: Tetsuji Takechi, Junichiro Tanizaki
- Producer:
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: September 12, 1981
- Runtime: 110 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
As with the original, the basic set-up is a dentist's waiting room in which a young man and a young woman named Chieko sit. The girl is called into the surgery and as she succumbs beneath the nitrous oxide, she begins hallucinating a series of darkly sexual encounters in which she is molested by the dastardly dental surgeon. The boundaries between daydream and reality soon blur and the film soon drifts from eroticised scenes of clinical dentistry to scenes of clinically candid gynaecology, all laid down to the harsh twang of the traditional shamisen on the soundtrack. -- Midnight Eye
Notes
- Based on a 1926 short story by Junichiro Tanizaki published in 1926 by Chuokoron.
- Remake of director Tetsuji Takechi's own 1964 film "Daydream".
- Related titles:
- Daydream | Hakujitsumu (1964)
- An Empty Dream | Chunmong (1965)
- Daydream | | Hakujitsumu (1981)
- Daydream 2 | Hakujitsumu Zoku (1987)
- Daydream | Hakujitsumu (2009)
