While the Women Are Sleeping

女が眠る時
2016 103 min Drama · Mystery

Late July in a glass-walled lobby, a single split-flap clock clicking 3:17 every time the numbers flip. An exhausted novelist watches his wife disappear into sunlit rooms while strange guests check in: a woman in red shoes who never speaks, another who folds towels into origami animals. Wayne Wang folds this quiet mystery into a chamber piece ripe for late-night screenings.

Directed by Wayne Wang · Written by Shinho Lee, Mami Sunada, Michael Ray

Starring Takeshi Kitano, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Shioli Kutsuna, Sayuri Oyamada, Lily Franky, Hirofumi Arai

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