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Love Hotel (1968 film)
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Wikipedia article
'aka' 'and' 'A Rendezvous Hotel' 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.
Cast
* Mieko Tanabe as Toyoko
* Kako Tachibana as Rumi
* Akiko Kozuki as Rinko
* Kyoko Ikeda as Hiromi
* Jun Yoshida
Background
Director Shin'ya Yamamoto is known as one of the "Founding Fathers" of the 'pink film'.Weisser, p. 504. 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. 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.Weisser, p. 110.
Yamamoto filmed 'Love Hotel' for Tky Kei and it was released theatrically in Japan by Shinth Eiga in September 1968. With this film, Yamamoto found the style which would make him one of the most popular 'pink film' directors for the next decade. 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.Weisser, pp. 110, 251-252, 504.Sharp, p. 66. 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 Yjir Takita made the series his own in the 1980s, and 'Molester's Train' films were still being made in the new millennium.
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Category:1968 films
Category:1960s Japanese-language films
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Category:Shinth Eiga films
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