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Feb 18, 2022 · Hotel Iris: Directed by Hiroshi Okuhara. With Lucia, Masatoshi Nagase, Nahana, Kanichiro. Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and thrifty Japanese woman (Nahana) and her lonely half-Taiwanese daughter Mari (Lucia).
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- Drama
- Hiroshi Okuhara
- 2022-02-18
Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and thrifty Japanese woman (Nahana) and her lonely half-Taiwanese daughter Mari (Lucia). One night, Mari hears the cries of a woman from the upper floors.
- Hiroshi Okuhara
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Hotel Irisbegins with an innocent-looking girl staring at a small island. The girl is Mari, a seventeen year-old who lives a cloistered existence working at the Hotel Iris—a boutique inn that her domineering widowed mother owns. One night, Mari observes an older man pushing a prostitute down the hotel’s stairs. Instead of fear, she feels fascinatio...
For other audiences—Hotel Irisis still worth analyzing as yet another example of Taiwan-Japan affinity, a dynamic present through the film. Compared to neighboring countries, in which the lingering memory of the Japanese empire has proved a stumbling block to good relations, Taiwan and Japan get along extremely well. Most Taiwanese and Japanese hav...
Curiously though, Hotel Iris situates its story on the island of Kinmen. Close enough to China to get shelled by the People’s Liberation Army every other day between 1958 and 1978, Kinmen didn’t experience Japanese colonization like the rest of Taiwan. Thus, in contrast with other Taiwanese, Kinmenese feel a deeper affinity for Chinathan Japan. Fro...
Nov 26, 2022 · Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and thrifty Japanese woman (Nahana) and her lonely half-Taiwanese daughter Mari (Lucia). One night, Mari hears the cries of a woman from the upper floors.
In Hiroshi Okuhara’s film adaptation of "Hotel Iris," which is now playing in theaters across Japan, the central relationship is not that of an elderly sexual abuser and his teenage victim.
Synopsis. Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and thrifty Japanese woman (Nahana) and her lonely...
Mari works at Hotel Iris in a rundown resort area. One day she hears the wails of a woman echoing from the upper floors. She observes a distraught woman fleeing a man’s profanities and violence. Mari is shocked and yet also strangely fascinated by the behavior of this man.
