Love Hotel (1985) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1985 · 88 mins · Japanese

Directed by

Shinji Sômai

Starring

Masatô Ibu, Minori Terada, Koichi Sato, Hisako Manda, Ryo Kinomoto, Toshinori Omi

Yumi, a call‑girl known as “night‑blooming flower,” and Tetsuro, a married man in debt to the yakuza, clash in a night at a love hotel. Haunted by that memory, they reunite years later, begin an obsessive love affair and return to the hotel to finish what began. The film mixes absurdity with operatic emotion, as forces bind the broken souls.