Daydream (1981 film)
{{Infobox film
| name = Daydream
| image = Daydream_1981.jpg
| caption = Poster of Daydream (1981)
| director = Tetsuji Takechi
| producer =
| writer =
| starring = Kyōko Aizome
| music =
| cinematography = Akira Takeda
| editing =
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| released = {{Film date|1981}}
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| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget =
}}
{{nihongo|Daydream|白日夢|Hakujitsumu}} is a 1981 Japanese pink film directed by Tetsuji Takechi. It is a remake of Takechi's 1964 pink film of the same name, and is considered the first hardcore pornographic film to be released theatrically in Japan.
Background
Maverick theater and film director Tetsuji Takechi had directed Japan's first big-budget pink film in 1964 with Daydream. He directed more films in the 1960s, including Black Snow 1965, which resulted in a high-profile obscenity trial.{{cite book |last=Weisser|first=Thomas|author2=Yuko Mihara Weisser|title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films|url=https://archive.org/details/japanesecinemaen00weis|url-access=limited|year=1998|publisher=Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications|location=Miami|isbn=1-889288-52-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/japanesecinemaen00weis/page/n69 68]}} During the 1970s, he concentrated on writing projects, and served as the host of a successful television series, The Tetsuji Takechi Hour for the previous decade.{{cite web |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|url=http://www.midnighteye.com/features/focus_takechi.shtml|title=Tetsuji Takechi: Erotic Nightmares|date=10 March 2001|website=Midnight Eye|access-date=15 March 2007}} In 1981, the then 68-year old Takechi decided to return to film with a hardcore remake of Daydream. Takechi again chose Akira Takeda, Nagisa Oshima's cinematographer between 1965 and 1968, to shoot his film.Weisser, p.102.
Noticing Kyōko Aizome in one of her nude photo magazine appearances, Takechi chose the then unknown actress to star in the film. After the film's release, Aizome added to the controversy by admitting to having performed actual sexual intercourse on camera. Though, as Japanese law required, sexual organs and pubic hair were fogged on screen, the Asahi Shimbun called it a breakthrough film as Japan's first hardcore pornographic movie,{{cite web |url=http://www.asahi.com/english/weekend/K2001120100409.html|title=Porn-star label now a badge of honor for actress|accessdate=2007-02-18|last=Koizumi|first=Shinichi|date=2001-12-01|work=Asahi Shimbun|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20011203120520/http://www.asahi.com/english/weekend/K2001120100409.html|archivedate=2001-12-03}} and Aizome received national notoriety from starring in the film, thereby becoming Japan's first hardcore pornographic star. Her name became a selling-point for future films such as Kyōko Aizome's Somber Reminiscence (1983).Weisser, p.40. Sexual acts in the movie are unsimulated.[http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/daydream/ Daydream, Year: 1981], Midnighteye, Published: 20 March 2001 ("...a lengthy scene of unsimulated intercourse towards the end of the film...")[https://hyperleap.com/topic/Kei_Sat%C5%8D Kei Satō] - with "Kyōko Aizome": ("In 1981 he appeared in the film Daydream performing an unsimulated sex scene with actress Kyoko Aizome."), Hyperleap, Access date: 06 May 2022
Cast
| class=wikitable
!Role !Actor |
| Woman |
| Dentist |
References
{{Reflist|2}}
Sources
- {{cite web|url=http://pinku.cho-yaba.com/pinku.php?idf=85|title=Daydream 81|accessdate=2007-10-17|publisher=pinku.cho-yaba.com|language=French|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070828150002/http://pinku.cho-yaba.com/pinku.php?idf=85|archive-date=2007-08-28|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.asahi.com/english/weekend/K2001120100409.html|title=Porn-star label now a badge of honor for actress|accessdate=2007-02-18|last=Koizumi|first=Shinichi|date=2001-12-01|work=Asahi Shimbun|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20011203120520/http://www.asahi.com/english/weekend/K2001120100409.html|archivedate=2001-12-03}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/daydream.shtml|first=Jasper|last=Sharp|title=Daydream (1981) review|accessdate=2007-03-27|work=www.midnighteye.com}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.midnighteye.com/features/focus_takechi.shtml|first=Jasper|last=Sharp|title=Tetsuji Takechi: Erotic Nightmares|accessdate=2007-03-15|work=www.midnighteye.com}}
- {{cite book |last=Weisser|first=Thomas|author2=Yuko Mihara Weisser|title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films|year=1998|publisher=Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications|location=Miami|isbn=1-889288-52-7}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.cinematopics.com/cinema/works/output2.php?oid=7393|script-title=ja:白日夢|accessdate=2010-03-29|language=Japanese|publisher=www.cinematopics.com|archive-date=2011-07-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721081858/http://www.cinematopics.com/cinema/works/output2.php?oid=7393|url-status=dead}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0223417|Daydream}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090226063208/http://db.geneon-ent.co.jp/search_new/show_detail.php?softid=GNBD-7460 Daydream official site]
{{Tetsuji Takechi}}
Category:1980s pornographic films
Category:1980s exploitation films
Category:Films based on works by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Category:Films directed by Tetsuji Takechi
Category:Japanese erotic films
Category:Remakes of Japanese films