Santa Claus Dreaming

(1997)

Genres: Drama

Year: 1997

Runtime: 54 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 光野道夫, 澤田鎌作

Cast: Тосиаки Карасава, 葉月里緒奈, 高橋克典, 星野真里, いかりや長介, Сатиэ Хара, 吉村由美, 山田花子, 相島一之, 鳥羽潤

Plot

Koshiba Seijuro is the assisstant to some influential figure whose daughter was all messed up, and who comes to the psychiatrist Koizumi Santa and asks him to counsel the daughter without her knowledge. Since Santa is a compulsive gambler he's hard up for money and takes the job even though he's queasy about the ethics. Turns out that she's the same girl he took to the hospital nine months earlier when she had passed out drunk on a roof preparing to jump. As it happens she woke up in the hospital and saw Santa's best friend Kusanagi Shunsuke (a surgeon) holding the Santa Claus hat Santa had been wearing (it was Christmas Eve), and it turns into a very complicated love triangle.