Love Hotel

6.8
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 88 min
  • Premiere: 1985. August 3.

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.

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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

Hisako Manda

(cameo)

Art

Satoshi Oda

Art Direction

Camera

Noboru Shinoda

Director of Photography

Katsuji Oyamada

Director of Photography

Tadashi Miura

Director of Photography

Hoshino Kinichi

Still Photographer

Costume & Make-Up

Kumiko Ogawa

Makeup Artist

Directing

Shinji Sōmai

Director

Koji Enokido

Assistant Director

Shin Togashi

Assistant Director

Norimasa Miyagi

Assistant Director

Editing

Isao Tomita

Editor

Lighting

Hideo Kumagai

Lighting Technician

Production

Susumu Miyasaka

Executive Producer

Naoya Narita

Producer

Kimio Shindo

Producer

Masao Tanaka

Production Manager

Sound

Osamu Onodera

Sound Mixer

Masahiko Tsuruhara

Sound Recordist

Takayuki Yagi

Sound Recordist

Daisuke Hayashi

Music Arranger

Writing

Takashi Ishii

Screenplay

Art

Satoshi Oda

Art Direction

Camera

Noboru Shinoda

Director of Photography

Katsuji Oyamada

Director of Photography

Tadashi Miura

Director of Photography

Hoshino Kinichi

Still Photographer

Costume & Make-Up

Kumiko Ogawa

Makeup Artist

Directing

Shinji Sōmai

Director

Koji Enokido

Assistant Director

Shin Togashi

Assistant Director

Norimasa Miyagi

Assistant Director

Editing

Isao Tomita

Editor

Lighting

Hideo Kumagai

Lighting Technician

Production

Susumu Miyasaka

Executive Producer

Naoya Narita

Producer

Kimio Shindo

Producer

Masao Tanaka

Production Manager

Sound

Osamu Onodera

Sound Mixer

Masahiko Tsuruhara

Sound Recordist

Takayuki Yagi

Sound Recordist

Daisuke Hayashi

Music Arranger

Writing

Takashi Ishii

Screenplay