Kabukicho Love Hotel

Plot:
Movie follows the lives of various people connected by a love hotel in Kabukicho, Tokyo. Characters include Toru (Shota Sometani), Saya (Atsuko Maeda), the cleaning woman for the love hotel (Kaho Minami), the cleaning woman’s husband (Yutaka Matsushige), music producer (Nao Omori), salaryman (Jun Murakami), prostitute scout (Shugo Oshinari) and the manager of a call girl business (Tomorowo Taguchi).

Toru dreamed of working at a 5 star hotel, but he now works as the manager of the short stay love hotel in Kabukicho, Tokyo. Meanwhile, his girlfriend Saya struggles to become a famous musician. Toru and Saya become bored of living together.

Movie: Kabukicho Love Hotel (English title) / Goodbye Kabukicho (literal title)
Romaji: Sayonara Kabukicho
Japanese: さよなら歌舞伎町
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
Writer: Haruhiko Arai
Producer: Osamu Fujioka, Mikihiko Hirata, Tadayoshi Kubo, Yasushi Minatoya, Kazuya Naito, Naoya Narita
Cinematographer: Atsuhiro Nabeshima
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Runtime: 135 min.
Distributor: Tokyo Theatres
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

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