Every-Night Dreams (夜ごとの夢, Yogoto no yume) is a 1933 Japanese silent drama film directed by Mikio Naruse.
Film scholar Alexander Jacoby saw Every-Night Dreams, together with Naruse's Apart From You (1933) and Street Without End (1934), as a series of melodramas "of remarkable intensity, where potential happiness is thwarted by hostile environments and practical responsibilities", demonstrating "a considerable stylistic virtuosity".
[3] Keith Uhlich of Slant Magazine gave the film four out of four stars, saying, "[l]ike many Naruse films of the '30s, Every Night Dreams is somewhat stylistically unhinged, yet the constant rapid push-ins and frenetic cutting (particularly during a striking montage of running legs) feel more to the psychological point than in comparatively showier works like Not Blood Relations and Street Without End.
"[4] Midnight Eye reviewer Roger Macy stated that Every-Night Dreams "is arguably one of the most famous Japanese films of the silent era and has had considerable attention in the literature […] [t]he story develops with superbly measured pace, with scenes of great comedy and others of much pathos, depicting the world of the great depression for those at the bottom of the heap.
"[5] Every-Night Dreams was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1985 as part of its retrospective on Mikio Naruse[6] and at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007 in its "Retrospektive" program.