Love Hotel

Aug 3, 1985

1h 28m

★ 6.8

Overview

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.

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

Ryo Kinomoto

(cameo)

Hisako Manda

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