{"id":8651,"date":"2014-04-30T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2014-04-30T15:28:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:28:59","slug":"film-love-hotel-the-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8651","title":{"rendered":"Film: Love Hotel, The (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"LoveHotel2013_pic_bb\"<\/a>Film<\/strong>: Good<\/p>\n

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Released:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0n\/a<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0 Documentary \/ Hot Docs 2014<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Rare glimpse into the world of Japan’s love hotels where stressed couples and fantasy seekers can escape for a night of a little role-playing, cuddling, and discipline.<\/p>\n

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As Japan moves towards a more conservative stance, the survival of its 37,000 love hotels \u2013 overnight lodging where guests can indulge in sexual fantasies outside of their restrictive jobs and personal lives \u2013 is more uncertain, making Philip Cox and Hikaru Toda\u2019s film a time capsule of a once-permissive business a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

The characters in Love Hotel <\/b>include single men, pensioners, a dominatrix, heterosexual and gay couples, and staff of Osaka\u2019s Angelo Love Hotel, with most allowing the camera to hover close by and capture the guests\u2019 efforts to rekindle, explore, open up, or just discuss issues and strengthen relationships. The undercurrent of governmental incursions \u2013 tit-for-tat rules designed to legally rob the hotels of their essential purpose \u2013 start to emerge in the final third, but the directors chose to avoid examining the reasons for governmental crackdowns and cultural shift. What saves the film is the refreshing presentation of private sexual escapes without being sleazy, voyeuristic, and exploitative.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2014 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/strong>
\nIMDB \u00a0<\/a>— \u00a0Hot Docs 2014 Listing<\/a>
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\nAmazon.ca<\/a>\"\" \"\" —\u00a0<\/span> Amazon.com<\/a>\"\" \"\" —\u00a0<\/span> Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Japan moves towards a more conservative stance, the survival of its 37,000 love hotels \u2013 overnight lodging where guests can indulge in sexual fantasies outside of their restrictive jobs and personal lives \u2013 is more uncertain, making Philip Cox and Hikaru Toda\u2019s film a time capsule of a once-permissive business a thing of the past…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[2715,461,2711,2701,2714],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2fx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8675,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions\/8675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}