Dreaming Awake

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.

Hiroyuki Nagato

Ineko Arima

Yoshio Inoue

Rie Miyazawa

Masatoshi Nagase

Tadanobu Asano

Takako Uehara

Kaori Momoi

Seijun Suzuki

Shingo Katsurayama

Erika Oda

Ichirō Ogura

Kazuya Takahashi

Ginpachi Ginza

Ako

• Takeo KimuraDirector · Writer
• Masayoshi AzumaWriter
• Hideki YamadaWriter
• Kazuhiro ShiraoDirector of Photography · Editor
• Jun KawabataOriginal Music Composer

Release date

October 18, 2008

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Drama