Love Hotel (2014)
- Directed by
- Philip Cox, Hikaru Toda
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom, France, Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
This documentary follows the manager and staff of a love hotel in Osaka as they struggle to keep it running. It also shows the private lives of the customers who visit, including pensioners, lawyers, married couples, and teenagers.
intimateobservationalsympatheticslow-pacedrevealingquietneutralpersonal
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