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Honnji Hotel
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Wikipedia article
is a 2017 Japanese comedy mystery fantasy film directed by Masayuki Suzuki, written by Tomoko Aizawa and starring Haruka Ayase, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Gaku Hamada, Hiroyuki Hirayama, , Masahiro Takashima, Masaomi Kond and Morio Kazama. It was released in Japan by Toho on 14 January 2017.
Plot
A woman visiting Kyoto finds that she has no reservation at the hotel where she intended to stay. She then finds a quaint, historic hotel, built near the site of the Honn-ji incident, that happens to have a room available. On riding the elevator to her room she consumes a piece of 'konpeit', and unexpectedly finds herself transported to the namesake temple in feudal Japan. Despite the perils of her unexplained presence, over several such trips she befriends the warlord Oda Nobunaga, who turns out to be a well-known but tragic historical figure.
Cast
*Haruka Ayase as Mayuko Kuramoto
*Shinichi Tsutsumi as Oda Nobunaga
*Gaku Hamada as Mori Ranmaru
*Hiroyuki Hirayama
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*Masahiro Takashima as Akechi Mitsuhide
*Masaomi Kond
*Morio Kazama
*Kiichi Nakai as Narrator
Reception
The film was number-one in Japan on its opening weekend, with 167,000 admissions and in gross.
References
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