Kaizô Hayashi - "To Sleep so as to Dream" (1986) imdb/title/tt0092274/ An aging silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing daughter, Bellflower. The two follow a succession of bizarre, obscure clues, until they track down the location of the kidnappers and the daughter. _ _ _ " What do you know about Japanese silent films? Long before The Artist came around, the young Japanese director Kaizo Hayashi decided to pay tribute to Japanese silent cinema with his feature debut, To Sleep so as to Dream – nice title! It’s about an aging silent film actress, who hires a private detective to find her missing daughter. The story is told like a silent movie, relying on stunning visuals to convey ideas, there’s also the film narrator – the benshi, plus the music to reflect the feelings. One of the fascinating things here is, most Japanese silent films have been destroyed through the years – to give an example, the masterpiece A Page of Madness was thought to be lost for decades, until it surfaced in 1971. Even today, you won’t find that many J-silent films on DVD (some are available here). digital-meme/en/our_products/dvds/index.html The point is, we don’t know that much about those films. That makes Hayashi’s tribute a must-see! (And you can already feel that Hayashi is deeply interested in detective/police story – later he’ll direct the Maiku Hama trilogy, as you can guess, it’s inspired by the fictional pulp detective Mike Hammer!) _ _ _
Posted on: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 11:51:04 +0000
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