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Dreams for Sale

2012 · 137 min

A quietly uncomfortable watch that mixes wry humour with moral unease, leaving you to squirm at how far ordinary people will go.

Directed by
Miwa Nishikawa
Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Takako Matsu, Sadao Abe, Rena Tanaka
Overview
After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them.

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Directed by
Miwa Nishikawa
Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Takako Matsu, Sadao Abe, Rena Tanaka
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • deception
  • survival
  • love
  • betrayal
  • morality
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism8
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama, crime
Directed by
Miwa Nishikawa
Written by
Miwa Nishikawa
Starring
Takako Matsu, Sadao Abe, Rena Tanaka, Sawa Suzuki, Tamae Ando, Yusuke Iseya, Yuka Ebara, Tae Kimura
Cinematography
Katsumi Yanagijima
Runtime
137 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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