Love Hotel Official Trailer

Opens April 4 at Metrograph in NYC A tale of two broken souls. A callgirl named Yumi, nightblooming 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 and coursing with undercurrents of operatic emotion, Love Hotel is moved by the irrational forces that attract two bodies together. Its a film with a uniquely materialist sense of eros manifested in Shinji Somais long takes, each shot a tightropelike predicament flushed with earthly tension and livewire physicality. Made in the same year as Typhoon Club, this elegiac erotica is one of Somais most bewitching and unnervingly romantic works, a highwater mark of Nikkatsu Studios legendary Roman Porno cycle of films.