Daydream

A quiet, queasy descent into voyeurism where polite surfaces crack open and watching becomes complicity.

Directed by

Tatsuro Yamashiro

Genres

Drama

Starring

Satoshi Mitsu, Yû Kamiwaki, Yoshinori Miyata

Overview

Watarai seems like a respectable science teacher at a cram school in a decent apartment complex but he has the hidden habit he dare not reveal. That of peeping in on people’s private lives. This veritable watcher in the attic has a peephole surveillance system set up to watch his downstairs neighbours, Taro and Hanae Magara, a couple who are university lecturers. They appear perfect from the outside but the husband hides a secret that Watarai discovers ahead of Hanae and he finds himself sucked from the role of an observer into that of a participant in the fracturing of their relationship and worse…

How it feels

Dark, tense, eerie and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Obsession, deception, isolation, betrayal

Content

Strong sexual content. Mild violence, gore and language.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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