Part of the 2017 season: Odd Obsessions

Kabukicho Love Hotel

Director Ryuichi Hiroki

Cast Starring: Shota Sometani, Atsuko Maeda, Kaho Minami

2014, 135 min, English subtitles

Images: © 2014 Kabukicho Love Hotel Film Partners. Gambit/Happinet

さよなら歌舞伎町 (Sayonara Kabukicho)

UK Premiere

A love hotel in Kabukicho, Tokyo’s well-known entertainment district conveniently conceals people with problems; a cleaner who lives with a criminal at large, a pimp and a girl who has run away from home. An ordinary day begins at this extraordinary hotel…

Directed by former ‘pink film’ director Ryuichi Hiroki (Vibrator) and starring Japan’s leading actors Shota Sometani and Atsuko Maeda, this bittersweet drama follows 24 hours in one of Tokyo’s love hotels, in which the dreams and desires of the hotel’s inhabitants intersect and collide.

猥雑な繁華街、新宿歌舞伎町のラブホテルの1日を通し、そこを利用する様々な男女の姿を描いた群集劇。ホテルの清掃員として働きながら傷害事件の時効成立を待つ女性、ヒモと家出少女など、訳ありの人々が集まるホテルで、それぞれの人間模様が展開していく。主演の染谷将太は2015年ニューヨーク・アジア映画祭のライジングスター賞を受賞している。

監督: 廣木隆一
出演: 染谷将太、前田敦子、南果歩

Distributor: Nikkatsu Corporation

Past screenings

  • ICA Sunday 5 February, 19:50
  • QUAD Friday 10 February, 21:00
  • HOME Saturday 11 February, 17:50
  • Watershed Monday 20 February, 18:00
  • Filmhouse Monday 27 March, 20:30