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Love Hotel

  • August 1985
  • 1hr

    28mins

  • Drama
  • Directed by

    Shinji Sōmai,

    Susumu Miyasaka,

    Starring

    Noriko Hayami,

    Minori Terada,

    Kiriko Shimizu,

    Nobutaka Masutomi

    ...

    A tale of two broken souls. A call-girl named Yumi, “night-blooming flower,” and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion. With a taste for wicked absurdity while coursing with undercurrents of operatic emotion, at times verging on a musical, Love Hotel is moved by the irrational forces that attract two bodies together.