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 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.
Director
Shinji Sōmai
Writer
Takashi Ishii
Cast
Noriko Hayami
Nami Tsuchiya / 'Yumi'
Minori Terada
Tetsuro Muraki
Kiriko Shimizu
Ryoko Muraki
Nobutaka Masutomi
Kiyoshi Ohta
Rie Nakagawa
Masayo Ohta
Masatô Ibu
Taxi Passenger
Toshinori Omi
Assistant Director
Koichi Sato
Taxi Driver
Ryo Kinomoto
Yakuza
Hisako Manda
(cameo)
