A tale of two broken souls. A call-girl named Yumi, “night-blooming flower,” and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion. With a taste for wicked absurdity while coursing with undercurrents of operatic emotion, at times verging on a musical, Love Hotel is moved by the irrational forces that attract two bodies together.
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Rapist in Uniform: A Sexual Demon
A high school girl and a teacher form a relationship but the man was arrested on suspicion of indecent conduct. Three years later, the man quit his job as a teacher, worked as a salesman for a general company, had a girlfriend, and was about to get engaged. Then, one day, in town, the two of them had a fateful reunion…
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Love hotel: Keshi wasure dai-zenshû
“Hidden cameras” capture couples at a love hotel: a high school teacher and a female student, an SM model and a man trying to pick up girls, and a woman in the nightlife industry and a boy.
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Hanging Garden
On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household knows the opposite is true.
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Guilty of Romance
In a Tokyo love hotel district, a woman is found dead in a derelict apartment. As police investigate, a romance novelist’s wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To break away from the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model enacting sex in front of a camera. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade that she’s still the doting wife she’s supposed to be.
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Kabukicho Love Hotel
This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious “love hotel” in Tokyo’s red-light district.