Dreams for Sale
- language: Japanese
- director: Miwa Nishikawa Nishikawa Miwa
- actor: Kana Kurashina Kanji Furutachi Katsuya Kobayashi Kyôsuke Yabe Ohori Koichi Rena Tanaka Sadao Abe Sawa Suzuki Tae Kimura Takako Matsu Tamae Ando Teruyuki Kagawa Tsurube Shofukutei Yuka Ebara Yûsuke Iseya
- writer: Nishikawa Miwa
Synopsis:
After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them.
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