Love Hotel

Love Hotel

6.8IMDb Score
Released:1985-08-03
Duration:88 min
Country:Japan
Director:Shinji Sōmai
Actors:Noriko Hayami, Minori Terada, Kiriko Shimizu, Nobutaka Masutomi, Rie Nakagawa
Production:Directors Company, Nikkatsu Corporation

Overview:

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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