# Daydream of Love (1980)

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**Original title**: *愛の白昼夢*
**Runtime**: 62 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Kōyū Ohara
**Written by**: Akira Nakano
**Starring**: Yoko Hatanaka, Kyoko Aoyama, Yuki Kazamatsuri, Hiroshi Ogasawara, Kenzō Ogiwara, Sumire Noguchi

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Yoko’s teenage fury meets Stranger by the Shore if the beach backdrop melted into neon-lit Tokyo back alleys. A high-schooler’s rebellion escalates from reckless flings to calculated cruelty after her father remarries. The film rides its lush eighties soundtrack straight into the wreckage left by a girl who weaponized desire.

**Mood tags**: neon-soaked, raw, sexy

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