Dreams for Sale

Dreams for Sale 6.7
  • Genre: Crime
  • Premiere: 2012
  • Running time: 2h 14m
  • Country: Japan

Shizawa Guanya (Abe Longshi) and Lizi (Matsuko) are an ordinary couple who rely on craftsmanship and hard work to eat. They run a small restaurant and win the favor of new and old customers with their superb cooking skills and thoughtful service. Unexpectedly, a fire reduced their ten-year-long efforts to ashes. Guan, who suffered a heavy blow, was willing to sink, drink and get drunk, and even develop an one-night stand with other women. As the saying goes, when poverty leads to change, Li Zi is unexpectedly inspired and instructs her husband to "seduce" an emotionally empty woman in order to swindle the funds for the reopening of the shop. After that, all kinds of women, such as OL (Tanaka Linai), prostitutes, single mothers (Kimura Doe), weightlifters and so on, have fallen into the trap of Mr. and Mrs. Shizawa. They sell dreams to women and lose each other in the process. This film won the awards of best director, best actress (Matsuko Matsuoko) and best supporting actress (Yuhui Ando) at the 27th Takasaki Film Festival in 2013.