Love Hotel

Directed by Shinji Sōmai

Produced by Directors Company, Nikkatsu Corporation

A dark, melancholic exploration of trauma and obsession between two damaged people drawn together by a violent past they cannot escape.

A call-girl named Yumi and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion.