Love Hotel

Love Hotel

1985
★★★☆☆ 6.5/10
⏱️ 88 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 JA
Drama
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.

Crew

Director
Shinji Sōmai
Writer
Takashi Ishii
Producer
Yoshiyuki Kaino, Susumu Miyasaka, Naoya Narita

Production

Directors Company, Nikkatsu Corporation, Cinema Guild

Keywords

suicidecall girlblackmailyakuzatraumasexual violencedebtprostitutionsoftcorepink film