Hakujitsumu

This 1981 remake of the classic "pinku eiga" masterpiece from 1964, is mostly a failure. Some interesting surreal artistic moments are ruined by tons of optical "fogging" and tedious repetitiveness. Closeup shots of women's faces, moaning and whimpering, ramble on for 10 minutes while body parts are blocked out by very distracting camera effects; it's literally headache inducing. With an almost twp hour running time, the problems with "Day-Dream" could have been fixed with some serious editing. 20 minutes could easily be cut from the film, and would be a huge improvement. In many instances artistic creativity is replaced by explicit sex, as censorship laws were much more lax in 1981 than they were in 1964, when the original was made. When will filmmakers learn not to attempt remakes of excellent films; but to remake bad films that had great ideas and poor execution? Seek out the original...

"Daydream" is a structureless succession of bizarre and erotic set-pieces revolving around a series of fantasies in a dentist's waiting room.A young woman named Chieko begins hallucinating whilst sitting on the dentist's chair.Her hallucinations involve dental surgeon,who molests and sexually abuses the woman.She is subjected to lengthy bondage session by the dentist,then she is pursued naked by him through a shopping mall and so on.The uncut Dutch version of "Daydream" contains several explicit scenes of pornography including a very long sequence of Kyoko Aizome being fingered by the dental surgeon.The commercial success of the film resulted in making "Daydream 2" aka "Captured for Sex" in 1987.