Day Dream

Day Dream

110 mins | Drama, Horror, Fantasy | Sept. 12, 1981

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.

Day Dream

110 mins | Drama, Horror, Fantasy | Sept. 12, 1981

Day Dream
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.
IMDb rating 4.6
Producers Takechi Production
Original title 白日夢
Directors Tetsuji Takechi
Writers Tetsuji Takechi, Junichirō Tanizaki

Cast

Kyōko Aizome

as Woman

Kei Satō

as Dentist

Takemi Katsushika

as Junkichi Kurahashi

Saeda Kawaguchi

as Nurse

Sengoro Shigeyama

as Vagrant

Taiji Tonoyama

as Guard

Yuri Yau

as Nurse