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      Love Hotel

      2014 1h 20m Documentary List
      Reviews 39% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings In Japan, long work hours, cramped living spaces and the need for privacy drive many people to establishments that discreetly cater to lovers and their needs. Read More Read Less

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      Russell Edwards sbs.com.au Don't panic -- or fall for the film's phony sentimentalism -- Japan's love hotels aren't vanishing just yet and neither will similar lightweight Japan and sex documentaries disappear from the film festival circuit. Rated: 2/5 Aug 21, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member It was a pretty standard documentary and interesting. It also left me with a lot of questions in a good way, no a the documentary didn't go far enough kind of way. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member As far as documentaries go, "Love Hotel" is the closest thing you can get to an utterly boring waste of space, time and energy. In a film that is basically an excuse for voyeurs to watch softcore pornography, this film follows the plights of a "Love Hotel" in Japan, which allows repressed Japanese people to do the nasty with each other in a fancy room. After a tediously long exploration of every characters love life, we then head into some story about how the hotel is likely to close because of the law. No context is given for this - claims that Japanese people can't have sex without some sort of service come with no evidence attached. A woman with undisclosed medical conditions worries about her sex appeal while her husband is outside waiting for sex. A prostitute makes unsubstantiated claims that she is superior to other prostitutes because she's a dominatrix. The government regulations that mirrors can't be on the ceiling suddenly shuts down a hotel. No context at all. If you feel particularly masochistic and want to utterly destroy a precious 75 minutes of your life on drivle, this is the film for you. If you value your time, hit skip. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis In Japan, long work hours, cramped living spaces and the need for privacy drive many people to establishments that discreetly cater to lovers and their needs.
      Director
      Phil Cox
      Producer
      Emmanuel Priou, Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud, Karol Martesko, Gernot Schaffler, Thomas Brunner
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      Japanese
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 22, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 20m