Love Hotel

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Pensioners, lawyers, married couples, and teenagers are all customers at the Angel Love Hotel in Osaka Japan. With unprecedented access into one of the most private and anonymous spaces in J... Read allPensioners, lawyers, married couples, and teenagers are all customers at the Angel Love Hotel in Osaka Japan. With unprecedented access into one of the most private and anonymous spaces in Japanese society, this film follows the love hotel's struggling manager and staff as the tr... Read allPensioners, lawyers, married couples, and teenagers are all customers at the Angel Love Hotel in Osaka Japan. With unprecedented access into one of the most private and anonymous spaces in Japanese society, this film follows the love hotel's struggling manager and staff as the try to keep their hotel running, as well as revealing the intimate and private lives of the ... Read all

Directors
- Philip Cox
- Hikaru Toda

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6.1/10

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Directors
- Philip Cox
- Hikaru Toda

See production info at IMDbPro

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10henry-shawdon

A wonderful, funny and moving picture.

The directors could have gone many different directions with this film.They obviously built an incredible level of access and intimacy with their subjects and this shows in every shot, the characters (who, as is my experience in Japan, show almost no shame about human sexuality) are comfortable talking frankly in a way that western subjects would never be. But they could have made a titillating, mocking or farcical film, they could have played it for laughs or for shock but instead they treated their subjects with compassion and tenderness and have created a truly wonderful movie. A moving picture of human sexuality. It's fun, it's wise and it's memorable. As one of the characters says, i think it's Ruki, 'none of us are normal,' how true.

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Unattributed quote before the credits; "Life must have a window to escape; for love is inexplicable and needs a dream space to blossom."