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To Sleep So As To Dream (1986)

English · Blu-ray

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Two private detectives hunt for an actress trapped within the reel of a silent ninja film in the dreamlike debut of Kaizo Hayashi (Circus Boys, Zipang), a magical double-handed cinephilic homage to the movie worlds of the 1910s and 1950s.

When private eye Uotsuka (Shiro Sano, Violent Cop, Shin Godzilla) and his sidekick Kobayashi are approached by an aged former actress, Madame Cherryblossom, to go in search of her kidnapped daughter Bellflower, their investigations lead them to the studios of the mysterious M. Pathe company. Here Uotsuka has a strange vision in which he comes face to face with the beautiful star of a 1915 chanbara film that appears to have no ending. From then on, things begin to get a little strange…

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Director	Kaizo Hayashi
Actor	Morio Agata, Kenji Endo (J-Pop), Fujiko Fukamizu, Baiken Jukkanji
Label	Arrow Video

Genre	Eastern Fantasy
Content	Blu-ray
Publication date	22.03.2022
Audio	Japanese (Dolby Digital)
Subtitles	English
Length	83 Minutes
Screen	16/9
Year of production	1986
Version	US Version
Region code	A

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