Love Hotel

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Directors Company edition
Certificate: 18
Running Time: 89 mins
Retail Price: £29.99
Release Date: 2024
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
After mainstream success, Shinji Somai (Typhoon Club) returned to his Nikkatsu roots for this mournful Roman Porno scripted by Takashi Ishii (writer of Evil Dead Trap and director of Gonin).

After Tetsuro loses his business, the yakuza collect his debt in the most violent, shocking way imaginable. Honorably, he divorces his wife and becomes a taxi driver. Existing bereft of meaning or support, he eventually encounters Nami, a part-time prostitute who has undergone similar tribulations. An existential study of two lonely and tortured souls, Somai’s melancholic roman porno follows the pair as they kindle a newfound friendship amid the chaos of their broken and dispirited lives.

Special Features:
• Feature length audio commentary by Jasper Sharp
• Shinji Somai at the Director’s Company: Video essay by Josh Slater-Williams
• Archival interview with actor Minori Terada and assistant director Koji Enokido
• Original Trailer
• Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
• ‘Directors Company’ edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp – limited to 2000 copies

Video Tracks:
1.85:1 widescreen 1080p

Audio Tracks:
DTS-HD MA 2.0 Japanese

Subtitle Tracks:
English

Directed By:
Shinji Sômai

Written By:
Takashi Ishii

Starring:
Noriko Hayami
Minori Terada
Kiriko Shimizu
Nobutaka Masutomi
Rie Nakagawa

Director of Photography:
Noboru Shinoda

Editor:
Isao Tomita

Producer:
Yoshiyuki Kaino

Distributor:
Third Window Films