Dream Crimes

1985 [JAPANESE]

Crime / Thriller

4
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 172 172

Top cast

Kiriko Shimizu as Yôko
Rei Akasaka as Yû
Kazuhiro Yamaji as Kizaki
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631.63 MB
1280*690
Japanese 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 8 min
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1.14 GB
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Japanese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 8 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ChaseWitherspoon75 4 / 10

The biggest crime is that it should've been so much better

Delicate Akasaka plays a sexy female assassin unwilling to fulfil her contract after she develops a romantic interest for the intended victim.Extremely stylish but the plot is threadbare and it takes an eternity for any action to happen. The last ten minutes offer the most excitement, the preceding hour looks sharp (reminiscent of a HK crime movie in colour tone and texture) and includes some quirky characters - prolific Kiriku Shimizu has an erotic cameo in the bar scene proving that Akasaka's sexual attraction isn't exclusive to men - without ever accelerating out of second gear.It's a shame to say given her acting talent, but Akasaka's character would have to be one of the most inept assassins around, despite having the motivation and training she's regularly out-manoeuvred and vulnerable to attack. I couldn't really grasp what the filmmakers were trying to say with her character, other than perhaps she wasn't really born to kill, it was merely an accidental occupation brought about by circumstance (but then she apparently has a fearsome reputation akin to a preying mantis).Disappointingly it doesn't add up; the eroticism and softcore overwhelm the sparse action and 'Dream Crimes' never realises its inherent potential.
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Reviewed by Uriah43 4 / 10

Constrained by External Factors

This film begins with a seductive woman named "Yu" (Rei Akasaka) having a drink at a nightclub in downtown Tokyo. While sitting at the bar a man by the name of "Kizaki" (Kazuhiro Yamaji) approaches and not long afterward the two of them decide to go to another location to become better acquainted in bed. It's then that we learn that Yu is an assassin who has just arrived in Tokyo and Kizaki is her client who wants to put out a contract on a man named "Oda" (Takashi Naitô). After accepting the down payment she is told that he will let her know once Oda has been located so in the meantime she decides to tour Tokyo for the time being. While walking through the streets she meets a young man named "Yosuke" (Hiroshi Umeda) who reminds her a great deal of her former lover. And this recollection brings back painful memories of how he was killed in a failed attempt to prevent her from being gang-raped by a small group of thugs ten years earlier. And this memory continues to haunt her in her dreams. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this particular movie is what is known in Japan as a "pinku eiga" which typically follows certain fundamental guidelines. To that effect, this is a relatively short movie (about 69 minutes) filmed on a limited budget and consists of 4 scenes of a sexual nature. It also incorporates a technique known as "fogging" which covers certain parts of the male and female anatomy. And it's these factors which not only defines the sub-genre but sometimes also constrains some of these movies from realizing their full potential. This film is a case in point as the dialogue and character development suffered as a result of these restrictive conditions. Now, while I wouldn't say that this was a bad picture necessarily it definitely could have been better and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.

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