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Kabukicho Love Hotel

2014 · 135 min

A slow, intimate drift through intersecting lives in a neon-lit hotel, tender and quietly sad.

Overview
This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • identity
  • class
  • betrayal
  • survival
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour3
Realism8
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Ryuichi Hiroki
Written by
Haruhiko Arai, Futoshi Nakano
Starring
Shota Sometani, Atsuko Maeda, Lee Na-ra, Son Il-kwon, Kaho Minami, Yutaka Matsushige, Asuka Hinoi, Miwako Wagatsuma
Cinematography
Atsuhiro Nabeshima
Runtime
135 min
Country
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Languages
Japanese, Korean

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