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Day Dream

Day Dream

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 12, 1981

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

User Score

39%

Original Title

白日夢

Production Companies

Takechi Production

Director

Tetsuji Takechi

Description

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.