Love Hotel

Aug 3, 1985

1h 28m

★ 6.6

Overview

A call-girl named Yumi 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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Directors Company

Nikkatsu Corporation

Cinema Guild

Love Hotel Trailers

Cast

Nami Tsuchiya/'Yumi'

Noriko Hayami

Tetsuro Muraki

Minori Terada

Ryoko Muraki

Kiriko Shimizu

Kiyoshi Ohta

Nobutaka Masutomi

Masayo Ohta

Rie Nakagawa

Taxi Passenger

Masatô Ibu

Assistant Director

Toshinori Omi

Taxi Driver

Koichi Sato

Yakuza

Ryô Kinomoto

Collection Thug

Daisuke Iijima

Collection Thug

Koji Koike

Collection Thug

Shinji Ishikawa

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