To Sleep So as to Dream

1986 [JAPANESE]

Action / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40%
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 489 489

Plot summary

An aging silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing daughter, Bellflower. The two follow a succession of bizarre, obscure clues, until they track down the location of the kidnappers and the daughter.

Director

Kaizô Hayashi Photo
Kaizô Hayashi

Top cast

Shirô Sano Photo
Shirô Sano as Uotsuka
Yoshio Yoshida Photo
Yoshio Yoshida as Matsunosuke, the director
Tetsu Watanabe Photo
Tetsu Watanabe
Maki Ishikawa Photo
Maki Ishikawa
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765.48 MB
982*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
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1.39 GB
1472*1080
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by athanasiosze 6 / 10

5.8/10. Watchable but not recommended.

Normally, i like weird movies like this. It's not a bad movie. Pace is good, acting is not great however it was never a distraction. Story was somewhat interesting. However, it didn't make much sense. Supposedly there is a big revelation at the end, but it was so confusing and irrational that i could not understand the whys and hows. Yes, it was touching, and i was a bit moved but still, it was too messy, at least for me. It's possible that i didn't understand some crucial points. Either way, i must be honest : It was not an enjoyable experience even though it never got boring. Still, if you love weird and touching movies, you might like it more than me.
Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 6 / 10

In love with movies

Directed and written by Kaizô Hayashi - who in addition to films like Zipang, The Most Terrible Time In My Life and The Stairway to the Distant Past owns Bar Tantei, a detective themed bar in Kyoto, Japan - To Sleep as to Dream is the story of two private detectives searching for an actress who has been trapped within the reel of a silent ninja film.Private eye Uotsuka (Shiro Sano, Shin Godzilla) and his sidekick Kobayashi (Koji Otake) have been hired by Madame Cherryblossom (Fujiko Fukamizu) to find her missing daughter Bellflower (Moe Kamura, who also composed music for this movie), which leads them to a film studio and a vision of a samurai movie with no ending, a series of actors from Japan's movie past and sets by Takeo Kimura, the art designer of movies like Tokyo: The Last War, A Killer Without a Grave and many more, as well as being the oldest person to ever direct a movie, 2008's Dreaming Awake at the age of 90.A near-silent film with often only music and commentary by a benshi performer, someone who would narrate silent films for the audience, all to tell the story of a world where detectives and magicians attempt to rescue or restrain Bellflower. The M. Pathé and Company villains are obsessed with film - and aren't we, too? - through a film that I was certain did come from Japan's past long before 1986.Madame Cherryblossom keeps watching a movie with no ending, either in her memory or reality and like much of Japan's silent film past, it may have been lost to age or warfare. The film that emerges casts her missing daughter as the goal for our hero, but can real life be a love story?I'd never heard of this film and it just hit me perfectly. Be sure to seek it out and do the same for yourself.
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