# Love Hotel (1985)

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**Original title**: *ラブホテル*
**Runtime**: 88 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance
**Directed by**: Shinji Sōmai
**Written by**: Takashi Ishii
**Starring**: Noriko Hayami, Minori Terada, Kiriko Shimizu, Nobutaka Masutomi, Rie Nakagawa, Masatô Ibu

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, sexy, tender

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