An old man, Mr. Eguchi accidentally finds a special hotel for gentlemen that are called "House of the sleeping beauties" by the sea. When a guest reserves a room, he can sleep with a young girl who is dead sleep by medicine. But the house has the strict rules and a landlady controls all. Mr. Eguchi fall in impossible love with a sleeping girl and the love remind him of his life. The background of this story is 1960's in Japan. It was the last period that Japonisme and specific morals had remained in ordinary people and their life after the Second World War.
DirectorAkemi Tachibana
WritersAkemi Tachibana, Yasunari Kawabata
