Dreaming Awake
7.7
Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Daisuke. The brash, headstrong young man is fixated on with the Second World War. He feels a sense of frustration at the irrational sacrifice of young people's lives during the war six decades earlier. Daisuke finds that he can vent his frustrations to Kimuro, who experienced the war firsthand. Kimuro's wife, Emiko, is also troubled by memories of the war. She lost a loved one in the war and has never gotten over it. And Kimuro himself also has something from the past that he has yet to face. He believes that the burden of his unresolved past will eventually be the death of him. When Daisuke's neurosis causes him to quit school, life changes for all three of them.
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Cast
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Hiroyuki Nagato
Known for
Pigs and Battleships
The Insect Woman
Ineko Arima
Known for
Tokyo Twilight
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Takeo Kimura
Masayoshi Azuma
Yoshio Inoue
Known for
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale
Rie Miyazawa
Known for
The Twilight Samurai
Her Love Boils Bathwater
Hideki Yamada
Masatoshi Nagase
Known for
Suicide Club
Sweet Bean
Tadanobu Asano
Known for
Shōgun
Thor: The Dark World
Takako Uehara
Known for
Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys
Kaori Momoi
Known for
Memoirs of a Geisha
Ghost in the Shell
Seijun Suzuki
Also in
Cold Fever
La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine
Takeo Kimura Director · Masayoshi Azuma Writer Hideki Yamada Writer
First release October 18, 2008 · Produced in Japan · Production Tornado Film
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PONY CANYON
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Tornado Film
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Japan
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Original title
夢のまにまに
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · October 18, 2008
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No release date listed for United States.
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