Legacy
Today Daydream retains a high reputation among Pink films. The Scarecrow Video Movie Guide calls Daydream an "extraodinary little film" which, by stimulating the Pink film genre, "changed Japanese films forever."
After the success of Daydream, Takechi would continue to be a leading figure in the Pink film genre for two decades. He released his third film, The Dream of the Red Chamber (Koromu, 1964) the same year as Daydream's release. The government subjected The Dream of the Red Chamber to extensive censorship before allowing it to be shown publicly. Eirin, the Japanese film-monitoring board, cut about 20% of the film's original content, and this footage is now considered lost. Takechi followed this first conflict with the government with the even more controversial, politically provocative "Black Snow" in 1965. This film would result in Takechi's arrest, and the first motion picture obscenity trial in Japan. He was a television show host in the 1970s. At the age of 68, with his 1981 re-make of Daydream, he became the director of the first theatrically released hardcore pornographic film in Japan.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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