Love Hotel (1968 film)

Love Hotel (アベック旅館, Avec Ryokan) aka Jitsuwa Repōto: Avec Ryojō (実話レポート アベック旅情)[1] and A Rendezvous Hotel[2] is a 1968 Japanese pink film directed by Shin'ya Yamamoto.

When a prostitute at a love hotel passes out drunk, the voluptuous madam who owns the establishment must serve in her place.

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.

[7] Yamamoto filmed Love Hotel for Tōkyō Kōei and it was released theatrically in Japan by Shintōhō Eiga in September 1968.

[7] 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.