Yume-ochi

The other weekend, when I discussed the script with my classmates, one of them said, "This story is not "Yume-ochi, right?" This was my first time to hear the word "Yume-ochi", so I didn't understand what she said at that time.

"Yume" means dream, and "ochi" means ending of the story, like punch line. Yume-ochi is a kind of "ochi", the way to end the story showing that all events in the story were a dream after all. For example, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll and "Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly" by Zhuangzi are famous Yume-ochi stories.

I didn't want to make the story end with surprising reversal, and Yume-ochi is a kind of it. I think that we could say the drama we are going to perform is Yume-ochi, but I can accept the ending way of the drama now. I suppose it's because the story is well organized and attractive indeed. Even if the story is a dream of the leading role, it must give him the way to open his eyes to reality.