Daydream (1964 film)
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| Directed by | Tetsuji Takechi |
| Produced by | Toyojiro Nagashima |
| Written by | Tetsuji Takechi Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (original story) |
| Starring | Kanako Michi Akira Ishihama Chojuro Hanakawa |
| Music by | Sukehisa Shiba |
| Cinematography | Akira Takeda |
| Edited by | Hanjiro Kaneko |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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93 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Daydream (白日夢 Hakujitsumu) is a 1964 Japanese film. It was the first erotic film to have a big budget and a mainstream release in Japan, and was shown at the Venice Film Festival and given two releases in the United States. Director Tetsuji Takechi remade the film in hardcore versions in 1981 and 1987. Both of these remakes starred actress Kyōko Aizome.
In the years since the end of World War II, eroticism had been gradually making its way into Japanese cinema. The first kiss to be seen in Japanese film—discreetly half-hidden by an umbrella—caused a national sensation in 1946. In the mid-1950s, the controversial taiyozoku films on the teen-age "Sun Tribe", such as Ko Nakahira's Crazed Fruit (1956), introduced unprecedented sexual frankness into Japanese films. At the same time, films such as Shintoho's female pearl-diver films starring buxom Michiko Maeda, began showing more flesh than would have previously been imaginable in the Japanese cinema. Nevertheless, until the early 1960s, graphic depictions of nudity and sex in Japanese film could only be seen in single-reel "stag films", made illegally by underground film producers such as those depicted in Imamura's film The Pornographers (1966).
Nudity and sex would officially enter the Japanese cinema with the independent, low-budget pink film genre. Known as eroductions at the time,Pink films made up the bulk of releases in the 1960s. The first true pink film, and the first Japanese movie with nude scenes, was Satoru Kobayashi's controversial and popular independent production Flesh Market (Nikutai no Ichiba, 1962). Director Seijun Suzuki's Gate of Flesh (1964) was the first Japanese mainstream film to contain nudity.
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