(Trailer) An English teacher falls in love with a Yakuza in “Lost Girls and Love Hotels”

In Lost Girls and Love Hotels (2020), a Western woman living in Tokyo, Japan, loses herself to the city’s dive bars and love hotels at night in order to repress the traumatic childhood memories of her schizophrenic brother. When she meets and falls for a charming Japanese gangster named Kazu, she has the opportunity to find herself again. However, the threat of a killer in the city may cause her to lose her soul completely.

The movie is an adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Canadian writer Catherine Hanrahan, which is based on her own experience living and working in Tokyo as an English teacher. The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2007. Catherine Hanrahan has also written the screenplay for the film.

William Olsson, an awarded filmmaker known for being responsible for An American Affair (2008) and Förtroligheten (2013), and being executive producer of Swiss Army Man (2016), has been in charge of directing Lost Girls and Love Hotels (2020). Alexandra Daddario, Carice van Houten, Takehiro Hira, Kate Easton, Peter Mark Kendall, Elisabeth Larena, Andrew Rothney, Mariko Tsutsui, and Asuka Kurosawa form the main cast.

Margaret (Alexandra Daddario) finds herself in the glittering labyrinth of Tokyo by night and as a respected English teacher of a Japanese flight attendant academy by day. With little life direction, Margaret searches for meaning with fellow ex-pats (Carice Van Houten) in a Japanese dive bar, drinking to remember to forget and losing herself in love hotel encounters with men who satisfy a fleeting craving. When Margaret crosses paths with a dashing Yakuza, Kazu (Takehiro Hira), she falls in love with him despite the danger and tradition that hinders their chances of being together. We follow Margaret through the dark and light of love and what it means to find oneself abroad with a youthful abandon.

Filming for Lost Girls and Love Hotels (2020) began in Tokyo on October 27, 2017, and was completed on December 15, 2017. The movie is Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, and language. Astrakan Film AB has the worldwide distribution rights for the film, which is scheduled to come out on Video on Demand on September 18, 2020. Here you can watch the trailer for Lost Girls and Love Hotels (2020).