# Hotel Hibiscus (2002)

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**Original title**: *ホテル・ハイビスカス*
**Runtime**: 90 min
**Genres**: Comedy
**Directed by**: Yuji Nakae
**Written by**: Yuji Nakae, Motoko Nakae
**Starring**: Honami Kurashita, Masao Teruya, Karim Ryuta Nesmith, Soko Wada, Seijin Noborikawa, Tomi Taira

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

This hotel’s house rules must include a waiver against hyperactivity. A six-year-old and a crumbling rooming house in Okinawa make for odd bedfellows. The place limps along like its last guest’s luggage, attached by a bungee cord.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, cozy, playful

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