Hotel by the Hour

Trust Me, I'm a Doctor(en)

The life of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor was turned upside down when he's implicated in the wrongful death trial of one-time Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith.

Kabukicho Love Hotel(ja)

This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.

Hanging Garden(ja)

On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household knows the opposite is true.

A Foreign Affair(en)

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.

Asyl: Park and Love Hotel(ja)

There is an old love hotel in Tokyo's Shinjuku district where couples can rent a room by the hour for romantic assignations. However, few of its regular customers seem to come there for sexual encounters; the hotel has become a hangout for rootless teenagers, senior citizens looking for a place to relax, and kids that play under the watchful eye of its owner...

Rapist in Uniform: A Sexual Demon(ja)

A high school girl and a teacher form a relationship but the man was arrested on suspicion of indecent conduct. Three years later, the man quit his job as a teacher, worked as a salesman for a general company, had a girlfriend, and was about to get engaged. Then, one day, in town, the two of them had a fateful reunion...

Love Hotel(ja)

A call-girl named Yumi and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion.

Born Reckless(en)

Rider Kelly Cobb travels to county rodeos to win money so he can buy a patch of land he wants to call his own. One night he rescues trick rider Jackie Adams from the clutches of an amorous rodeo promoter and they form a team and hit the circuit along with sidekick Cool Man.

Check Inn(tl)

The story of two women, Glenda and Maita, both breadwinners and both work in a motel. One works as a receptionist for it, the other uses it for her profession.

Last Room(fr)

Made in Japan, Last Room is both fiction and documentary. The occupants of the love-hotels and capsule-hotels tell their own intimate, dreamlike stories, interspersed with journeys through the archipelago's landscapes. Soon, these personal stories resonate with a collective history: that of Gunkanjima, the abandoned ghost island of Nagasaki, and then that of Japan as a whole.

The Girl Can't Help It(en)

A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.

The Hardcore Love Hotel Graffiti Notebook: female university student Tanaka Ryoko, age 21(ja)

After meeting in tennis club, a strange relationship unfolds between a boy and girl at a love hotel.

The Hardcore Love Hotel Graffiti Notebook: married woman Saeko Nakamura, 24 years old(ja)

A woman has been married for 5 months but soon cheats on her husband at a love hotel.

Bombshell(en)

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Best of Spirit Pandemic: Volume 1(ja)

Today, everyone is able to transmit a variety of videos. As if in mockery of this trend, many ghosts and bizarre phenomena are being projected....

Spirit Pandemic Phase 20(ja)

The 20th shocking psychic documentary by the staff of the popular series "Honto ni Atta! Curse Video"!

Love hotel: Keshi wasure dai-zenshû(ja)

"Hidden cameras" capture couples at a love hotel: a high school teacher and a female student, an SM model and a man trying to pick up girls, and a woman in the nightlife industry and a boy.

Raoul et Jocelyne(fr)

Skin Flick(en)

A porn actress stars in the Devil’s cannibal snuff films in exchange for flawless skin. While luring a runaway bride to the studio to devour her on camera, she begins to develop feelings that will disrupt the Devil’s script.

Guilty of Romance(ja)

In a Tokyo love hotel district, a woman is found dead in a derelict apartment. As police investigate, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To break away from the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model enacting sex in front of a camera. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade that she's still the doting wife she's supposed to be.