Teruhiko Kuze

Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.

A man awaits the reincarnation of his dead wife

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.

In the 39th year of Meiji, a Yucheng, who had lived in poverty since childhood, lived in a house near the ramp in order to become a concubine of usury

光源氏 は、桐壺帝 の二番目の皇子として生まれた。母は桐壺更衣と呼ばれ、帝の寵愛を独り占めしていたが、三歳の源氏を残して他界。嘆き悲しんでいた帝は、やがて桐壺に生き写しの藤壺を女御として迎える。初めは藤壺を母と慕っていた源氏の気持ちは、いつの間にか恋にまで深まった。源氏にはその妻に左大臣 の娘・葵の上が定められていた。葵の上は美しいが権高な女性だったこともあって、藤壺に心を寄せる源氏とは睦まじく打ち解ける仲にはなれない。 ある日、源氏は藤壺に抑えきれぬ胸の内を明かした。藤壺を激しく抱きしめるが、彼女は「もうこれ以上罪を犯すことは出来ない。二度と会うことはない」と告げた。その後、源氏は夫のいる空蝉との一夜限りの契り、夕顔とのはかない愛、美人ではないが心優しい女・末摘花、幼い頃から手塩に掛けた若紫との結婚という愛の遍歴を重ねていく。