Love Hotel

Rabu hoteru

Japan

1985

88 Min

Color

Japanese

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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CAST Noriko Nayami, Minori Terada, Kiriko Shimizu, Nobutaka Masutomi, Rie Nakagawa, Masatô Ibu, Ryo Kinomoto, Hisako Manda, Toshinori Omi, Koichi Sato

ED Isao Tomita

New York (Masterworks), Edinburgh (Retrospective: Shinji Somai)

Synopsis

Love Hotel begins with the downfall of Tetsuro Muraki (Minori Terada). His company goes bankrupt and he fails to pay back the money he owes to the yakuza. Not being able to get money out of him the loansharks rape his wife in front of him. The desparate Muraki plans to end his life in a Love Hotel after sex with a prostitute but finds himself too weak. The film continues two years later. Murakami has divorced from his wife in order to protect her from the debt, and become a taxi driver. One day he meets Nami (Noriko Hayami), a woman he believes might understand him due to being in a similar situation. —grindhousedatabase.com

Director

Shinji Sômai

Shinji Sōmai (相米慎二, Sōmai Shinji?, 13 January 1948 – 9 September 2001) was a Japanese film director. He directed 13 films between 1980 and 2000. His film Ohikkoshi was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. —wikipedia

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Paolo Simeone

6Jun13

Ci son momenti altissimi come ti aspetteresti da un film con questi nomi coinvolti eppure ad una prima visione mi ha lasciato un po' insoddisfatto. Certamente lo rivedro`.