Dreams for Sale

• Director: Nishikawa Miwa
• Writer: Nishikawa Miwa
• Cast: Yûsuke Iseya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Takako Matsu, Kyôsuke Yabe, Rena Tanaka, Sadao Abe, Kana Kurashina, Tae Kimura, Sawa Suzuki, Tamae Ando, Katsuya Kobayashi, Kanji Furutachi, Tsurube Shofukutei, Ohori Koichi, Yuka Ebara
• Language: Japanese
• Theatrical Release Date: September 8, 2012

Synopsis: Kanya and Satoko, a married couple in Tokyo owned a small izakaya, a Japanese style pub. Their life was not easy but happy. One day they lost everything due to a fire. The two could not give up their dreams to own their own izakaya again, and started to save the money. Their choice of how to save the money was to act “marriage fraud” together. Satoko looks for women who are short of something in their life. She plans for her husband to deceive them and Kanya seduces them. An office worker who wants to get married, a very unfortunate young woman working in sex industry, lonely weightlifting athlete, a single mother working in a public working agency. They all accept love of Kanya. At first, everything seems to go on well and they succeed in saving money steadily. But their lies start to cause troubles not only between Kanya and the deceived women but between Kanya and Satoko. [Synopsis courtesy of Toronto International Film Festival]