If you loved Poem, try Ten Nights of Dreams

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Ten Nights of Dreams

2007 · dir. Takashi Shimizu, Yudai Yamaguchi, Kon Ichikawa, Akio Jissoji, Suzuki Matsuo, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Keisuke Toyoshima, Atsushi Shimizu, Miwa Nishikawa, Yoshitaka Amano

What they share

Both films are directed by Akio Jissoji. If that's the register that drew you to Poem, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Ten Nights of Dreams is

Moonlight pooling through a paper screen. A wooden lantern gutters out. A blind masseuse listens to a heartbeat that isn’t his own. In one night, a sleepwalker counts his ribs while a kimono steams on a line. Ten dreams, ten filmmakers, each fold of sleep unspooling a new nightmare wrapped in silk and static. Japanese surrealism’s last known heist: stealing shadows from the subconscious.

If you loved Poem, try Ten Nights of Dreams

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What they share

What Ten Nights of Dreams is

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