If you loved Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, try Love Hotel
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Both films are directed by Shinji Sōmai, and they both carry the neon soaked mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
neon soaked
What Love Hotel is
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.

