Love Hotel

Here's one for the couples' therapists. A prostitute and a yakuza-adjacent married man meet for a transaction in a love hotel. Years later, they embark on an affair and return to the scene of the crime. It’s a film that believes in second chances, of a kind.

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Shinji Sōmai directed Love Hotel in 1985. See Shinji Sōmai's full filmography, where to start with Shinji Sōmai, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shinji Sōmai.

Love Hotel was released in 1985 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 88 minutes.