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Ten Nights of Dreams (2007)

Directed by Takashi Shimizu, Suzuki Matsuo, Yoshitaka Amano, Kon Ichikawa, Yudai Yamaguchi, Keisuke Toyoshima, Miwa Nishikawa, Akio Jissoji, Atsushi Shimizu, Nobuhiro Yamashita

Fantasy | Horror | Animation

Overview

Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki’s same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.

Length 111 minutes

Actors

Kyoko Koizumi | Suzuki Matsuo | Tsuyoshi Ujiki | Umenosuke Nakamura | Keisuke Horibe | Yuu Kashii | Koji Yamamoto | Rio Kanno | Mikako Ichikawa | Koji Okura | Yoshizumi Ishihara | Hiroshi Fujioka | Hiroshi Yamamoto | Sadao Abe | Tamaki Ogawa | Pierre Taki | Kenichi Matsuyama | Manami Honjô | Kôji Ishizaka | Erika Toda

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Based on a newspaper serial written by Soseki in 1908 (later published as a collection), this is modern vision of these “dreams” by ten different directors. Hit and miss but all the while compelling and ambitious despite each being so tonally different. Most would probably not care for the ambiguity presented in each segment but it’s not boring.

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