Love Hotel (1968 film)

Love Hotel , Avec Ryokan? aka Jitsuwa Repto Avec Ryoj ? and A Rendezvous Hotel is a 1968 Japanese pink film directed by Shinya Yamamoto.

Director Shinya Yamamoto is known as one of the Founding Fathers of the pink film. In his Behind the Pink Curtain The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema, Jasper Sharp credits Yamamoto with almost singlehandedly injecting the element of lighthearted fun into pink cinema. His earliest films were in the serious and often misogynistic tone of many pink films of the era. 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.Yamamoto filmed Love Hotel for Tky Kei and it was released theatrically in Japan by Shinth Eiga in September 1968. With this film, Yamamoto found the style which would make him one of the most popular pink film directors for the next decade. His films of this period, such as the 15film Widows Boarding House series and his Womens 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 subjectmatter. Even more so than the Widows Boarding House scenario, which has been taken up by other directors, Yamamotos Molesters Train series, which he started in 1975, has proven a prolific series of pink comedies. Academy Awardwinning director Yjir Takita made the series his own in the 1980s, and Molesters Train films were still being made in the new millennium. ........

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