While traveling isn’t an option right now, let the dark and moody trailer for “Lost Girls & Love Hotels” transport you to Japan. The film, based on Catherine Hanrahan’s 2006 book of the same name, follows an American English teacher named Margaret, played by Alexandra Daddario (“True Detective”), in Tokyo. She explores Tokyo nightlife on a daily basis and falls into the arms of a man named Kazu, played by Takehiro Hira (“The Fighter Pilot”) as she attempts to forget her painful past. Their relationship takes audiences on a tour of the city by way of Toyko’s dive bars, alleys, and three-hour love hotels.
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Carice van Houten (“Game of Thrones”), Misuzu Kanno (“37 Seconds”), and Kate Easton (“Where’d You Go, Bernadette”) join Daddario and Hira in the cast of “Lost Girls & Love Hotels.” William Olsson (“An American Affair”) takes the helm as director with Hanrahan acting as the film’s screenwriter.
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Here’s the official synopsis for “Lost Girls & Love Hotels:”
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An intoxicating exploration of contemporary Tokyo’s duality, LOST GIRLS & LOVE HOTELS stars Alexandra Daddario (TV’s “True Detective”, San Andreas), Takehiro Hira (The Fighter Pilot, The Floating Castle) and Carice Van Houten (Valkyrie, Black Book). Based on screenwriter Catherine Hanrahan’s book of the same name, and directed by William Olsson, the film is a provocative journey inviting you to get lost within the darkest corridors of Japan in hopes of experiencing fleeting moments of beauty. We follow the passionate tale of love and lust between a haunted American English teacher Margaret (Daddario) and a dashing Yakuza named Kazu (Takehiro Hira) as their affair tears them apart and reshapes them across Tokyo’s landscape of dive bars, alleyways, and three-hour love hotels.
“Lost Girls & Love Hotels” drops on VOD and select theaters on September 4. Take a look at the newest trailer below.