Love Hotel
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1985-08-03
Runtime: 88 mins
Director: Shinji Sōmai
Spoken language: 日本語
Genres: Drama
Original title: Love Hotel
Production Companies: Directors Company, Nikkatsu Corporation, Cinema Guild
Production Countries: Japan
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