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| ラブホテル | |
| Directed by | Shinji Sōmai |
| Written by | Takashi Ishii |
| Starring | Minori Terada Noriko Hayami |
| Cinematography | Noboru Shinoda |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Love Hotel (ラブホテル) is a 1985 Japanese pink film in Nikkatsu's Roman porno series, directed by Shinji Sōmai and starring Noriko Hayami.[1]
When businessman Tetsuro Muraki has his company go bankrupt and his wife Ryoko is raped by gangsters who use her body to pay off his debts, he succumbs to despair. He hires a prostitute, Nami, to go with him to a love hotel with sex and suicide in mind.[2]
Although director Shinji Sōmai had worked for Nikkatsu in the 1970s and served as an assistant director, this film marked his only work in the Roman porno genre for Nikkatsu. The film was produced by the Directors's Company (ディレクターズ カンパニー), an association of young directors formed in 1982.[3] The screenplay was the work of Takashi Ishii who would later rework the script for his directorial debut, the 1988 film Angel Guts: Red Vertigo.[2]
The film also won the Nikkatsu in-house award for Best Film of the Year.[2]
