Lost Girls & Love Hotels (2020)
Storyline
Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a dashing Yakuza, as their tumultuous affair takes her on a journey through the city's dive bars and three-hour love hotels.
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Cast
Carice van Houten, Alexandra Daddario, Kate Easton, Andrew Rothney, Asuka Kurosawa, Peter Mark Kendall, Mariko Tsutsui, Kenji Isomura, Takehiro Hira, Dasha Teranishi, Anastasia Nasu, Elisabeth Larena, Niclas Ericsson, Haruka Imô, Eri Ishida, Kanno Misuzu, Axel Kzewit, Yu Mizuhara, Katsumasa Morita, Federico Settimelli, Jenny Shima, Tarô Suruga, Yasunari Takeshima
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Reviews
88
This is one of the better intimate dramas of the year.
70
It's a high point for everyone involved.
67
If not for the performance of Daddario, Lost Girls & Love Hotels could have been a disaster.
63
Other films have told similar stories with greater power. Director William Olsson appears unwilling to fully commit to the darkness that a movie of this sort would need to embrace to be both ephemerally disturbing (which it is) and memorable (which it isn’t).
50
William Olsson’s film works as an atmospheric mood piece and sometime erotic drama. It’s less successful as a character study.
