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 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.
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.

