In Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson explored hotels, clubs, and busy streets of Tokyo while deepening a relationship neither expected. It’s one of the many films that has fed my fascination with Japan. Now it looks like I can add another. Lost Girls & Love Hotels almost looks like the inverse of that classic Sofia Coppola film, only with Alexandra Daddario making her way through Tokyo’s dark underbelly.
Directed by William Olsson (An American Affair), Lost Girls & Love Hotels stars Daddario as an American woman who makes her way through the dark alleys, dive bars, and three-hour love hotels with her Japanese lover. The film is based on a book by Catherine Hanrahan, who also wrote the screenplay.
Needless to say, this is right up my alley and will not only look to review it but talk to them about the production.
Also starring Takehiro Hira, Carice van Houten, Misuzu Kanno, and Kate Easton, Lost Girls & Love Hotels hits select theaters and VOD on September 4th.
SYNOPSIS: An intoxicating exploration of contemporary Tokyo’s duality, LOST GIRLS & LOVE HOTELS stars Alexandra Daddario (TV’s “True Detective”, San Andreas), Takehiro Hira (The Fighter Pilot, The Floating Castle) and Carice Van Houten (Valkyrie, Black Book). Based on screenwriter Catherine Hanrahan’s book of the same name, and directed by William Olsson, the film is a provocative journey inviting you to get lost within the darkest corridors of Japan in hopes of experiencing fleeting moments of beauty. We follow the passionate tale of love and lust between a haunted American English teacher Margaret (Daddario) and a dashing Yakuza named Kazu (Takehiro Hira) as their affair tears them apart and reshapes them across Tokyo’s landscape of dive bars, alleyways, and three-hour love hotels.
