Love Hotel
6.6
A call-girl named Yumi 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.
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Cast
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Noriko Hayami
Nami Tsuchiya/'Yumi'
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Shinji Sōmai Director · Takashi Ishii Screenplay Noboru Shinoda Cinematographer
United States release August 8, 1986 · Produced in Japan · Production Nikkatsu Corporation
Production
Directors Company
Production
Nikkatsu Corporation
Production
Japan
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Original title
ラブホテル
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · August 3, 1985
Theatrical
United States · August 8, 1986
Limited theatrical
France
June 18, 2026 · Limited theatrical · Cinémathèque Française
United Kingdom
July 22, 2024 · Physical · Third Window Films (Director's Company Edition) Blu-ray
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