Love Hotel
Part of Worldwide Wednesdays film series
Love Hotel
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 and coursing with undercurrents of operatic emotion, at times veering into near-musical territory, Love Hotel is moved by the irrational forces that attract two bodies together. It’s a film with a uniquely materialist sense of eros manifested in Shinji Somai’s long takes, each shot a tightrope-like predicament flushed with earthly tension and livewire physicality. Made in the same year as Typhoon Club, this elegiac erotica is one of Somai’s most bewitching and unnervingly romantic works, a high-water mark of Nikkatsu Studio’s legendary Roman Porno cycle of films.
Newly restored!
Newly restored!
Genre
Drama,
Worldwide Wednesdays,
Erotica
Runtime
88
Language
Japanese
Director
Shinji Sômai
Writer(s)
Takashi Ishii
Cast
Noriko Hayami,
Minori Terada,
Kiriko Shimizu
Opening at
Glendale on Apr 30th
Town Center 5 on Apr 30th
Monica Film Center on Apr 30th
Claremont 5 on Apr 30th
Newhall on Apr 30th
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Note: There were no showtimes for Wed, Mar 12th,
so instead we're showing you showtimes for the next available date on Wed, Apr 30th.