Love Hotel (1968 film)

This article is about a 1968 Japanese film. For other uses, see Love Hotel.
Love Hotel

Theatrical poster for Love Hotel (1968)
Directed by Shin'ya Yamamoto[1]
Production
company
Tōkyō Kōei
Distributed by Shintōhō Eiga
Release dates
 September 1968
Running time
 71 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Love Hotel (アベック旅館 Avec Ryokan) aka Jitsuwa Repōto: Avec Ryojō (実話レポート　アベック旅情)[1] and A Rendezvous Hotel[2] is a 1968 Japanese pink film directed by Shin'ya Yamamoto.

Synopsis

When a prostitute at a love hotel passes out drunk, the voluptuous madam who owns the establishment must serve in her place.[3]

Cast

Background

Director Shin'ya Yamamoto is known as one of the "Founding Fathers" of the pink film.[5] In his Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema, Jasper Sharp credits Yamamoto with almost single-handedly injecting the element of light-hearted fun into pink cinema.[6] His earliest films were in the serious and often misogynistic tone of many pink films of the era. Critics judged such early Yamamoto films as Degenerate (1967), Torture by a Woman (1967), and The Rapist (1968) to be technically superior to much of the pink product of the time, but not distinguished from them in terms of theme or style.[7]

Yamamoto filmed Love Hotel for Tōkyō Kōei and it was released theatrically in Japan by Shintōhō Eiga in September 1968.[1] With this film, Yamamoto found the style which would make him one of the most popular pink film directors for the next decade.[7] His films of this period, such as the 15-film Widow's Boarding House series and his "Women's Onsen" films, are known for an interest in people living in group settings, and for a light, comical touch which was in direct contrast to most contemporary pink cinema, which tended to be darker in subject-matter.[8][9] Even more so than the Widow's Boarding House scenario, which has been taken up by other directors, Yamamoto's Molester's Train series, which he started in 1975, has proven a prolific series of pink comedies. Academy Award-winning director Yōjirō Takita made the series his own in the 1980s, and Molester's Train films were still being made in the new millennium.[9]

Bibliography

English

Japanese

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 実話レポート　アベック旅情 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
  2. ↑ "AVEC RIYOKAN". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
  3. ↑ Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 251–252. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
  4. ↑ Cowie, Peter (editor) (1977). "Japan". World Filmography 1968. London: Tantivy Press. p. 357. ISBN 0-904208-36-2.
  5. ↑ Weisser, p. 504.
  6. ↑ Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
  7. 1 2 Weisser, p. 110.
  8. ↑ Weisser, pp. 110, 251-252, 504.
  9. 1 2 Sharp, p. 66.
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