Lost Girls and Love Hotels – Movie Review
ABC Film Challenge – Thriller – K (Kazu)
Director: William Olsson
Writer: Catherine Hanrahan (Screenplay)
Cast
- Alexandra Daddario (Mayfair Witches)
- Takehiro Hira (Shogun)
- Carice van Houten (Game of Thrones)
- Andrew Rothney (The Matrix Resurrections)
- Misuzu Kanno
Plot: Disillusioned with the world she knows, a woman searches for meaning and affirmations of life with a dashing Yakuza gangster in Tokyo.
Runtime: 1 Hour 37 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Lost Girls and Love Hotels starts as we meet Margaret (Daddario) a woman living in Japan. She works as a teacher for a flight attendant school but struggles to find herself in the new city and country.
Margaret finds herself drawn to a Yakuza member Kazu (Hira) as she searches for someone to connect to in the city. However, their relationship is complicated, and Margaret must learn to understand the cultural differences.
Verdict on Lost Girls and Love Hotels
Lost Girls and Love Hotels is a thriller following an American woman trying to get to grips with life in Japan. She struggles to connect to too many people until she meets a dashing Yakuza gangster. however, he life becomes more dangerous as she is drawn into a sexual underworld of the city.
This dives into the difficulties of adapting to a new life away from home. It shows the draw of something outside of the normal and how easily people can get trapped in a world they dislike. Sadly, it doesn’t seem to do that much to stand out and we have seen things similar and more interestingly done before. Despite Alexandra Daddario’s attempts to make a big impact.
Where to Watch
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Final Thoughts – Lost Girls and Love Hotels falls into the same paths as many lost in the big city movies.
