Long Dream

"If you can't wake up from the nightmare, maybe you're not asleep."

2000 0h 58m JA

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6.0

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★6.0TMDB · 22

HorrorScience FictionTV Movie

Synopsis

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Strange things lurk in dreams. For Mukoda Tetsurou and the doctors tending to him, things have begun to get stranger as Mukoda begins having longer and longer dreams every night. Can one dream infinity in the span of a night?

“If you can't wake up from the nightmare, maybe you're not asleep.”

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Cast

Masami Horiuchi
Kuroda
Tsugumi
Takeshima Mami
Kenjiro Tsuda
Doctor Yamauchi
Eriko Hatsune
Kana Sakurai
Shuji Kashiwabara
Mukoda

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Higuchinsky
Writers: Higuchinsky, Kyoichi Nanatsuki
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Tight 58-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 7

ERA

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26 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 7

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 7

CAST

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Masami Horiuchi and Tsugumi and Kenjiro Tsuda carry the top of the cast.

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5 / 7

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "If you can't wake up from the nightmare, maybe you're not asleep.".

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6 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0390290 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 22 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Higuchinsky directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 58-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
226 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Masami Horiuchi and Tsugumi and Kenjiro Tsuda carry the top of the cast.
5Marketing tagline: "If you can't wake up from the nightmare, maybe you're not asleep.".
6IMDB entry: tt0390290 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 22 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.