Kabukicho Love Hotel

Kabukicho Love Hotel

Film poster
Directed by Ryūichi Hiroki
Written by Haruhiko Arai
Futoshi Nakano
Starring
Music by Ayano Tsuji
Cinematography Atushiro Nabeshima
Release dates
  • 7 September 2014 (2014-09-07) (TIFF)
  • 25 January 2015 (2015-01-25) (Japan)
Running time
135 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Korean

Kabukicho Love Hotel (さよなら歌舞伎町 Sayonara Kubukicho, lit. "Goodbye Kabukicho") is a 2014 Japanese drama film directed by Ryūichi Hiroki, starring Shota Sometani and Atsuko Maeda. It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[1]

Plot

Having lost his job at a five-star hotel, Toru (Shota Sometani) is now a manager of a love hotel in the titular district of Kabukicho in Tokyo. Toru's girlfriend, Saya (Atsuko Maeda) is an aspiring singer. Saya doesn't know that Toru manages a love hotel. She is an aspiring singer who ends up being a client at Toru's hotel, where Toru discovers that she has agreed to sleep with a music executive so she can get a record deal.

Cast

Reception

Don Brown of Asahi Shimbun called it "one of Hiroki's most purely entertaining and satisfying films to date".[5]

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