Lost Girls and Love Hotels

If it weren't for Alexandra Dadarrios huge blue/green eyes, She wouldn't even be on screen. A boring romp through Tokyo's one hour hotels with the usual characteristics of a loser attributed to lead character Margaret; chain smoker, chronic drinker and irresponsible worker. How rich, handsome Yakuza member Kazu would even find her even remotely attractive is dumbfounding. There was Zero chemistry between the 2 lovers. Glad I was able to fast forward through this film and relegate to a wasted 30 minutes.

I guess you may need to have lived a certain type of life, experienced certain types of emotional states or situations, to really appreciate this film. That's no slight directed at anyone who doesn't get, or like this film. I found this film incredibly moving. Found tears unexpectedly falling down my face. It's quite a beautiful film. It's important I think, to let the viewer know the Yakuza connection isn't obvious in this film until a restaurant scene shows the male lead has power. Even then, it's not blatantly obvious at all the man is in a gang. This may be a bit confusing to anyone who has read the info about the film, or anyone who goes in Boone without any idea at all about this film. It's very subtle in many ways. Direct and blatant in others. I really enjoyed this film and I'm glad I had the chance to see it.

The title says it all. A story of a lost girl with no focus and no ambitions that likes to get drunk and have sex with random guys at love hotels. Nothing remarkable about this story, there are millions of lost girls out there all around the globe that have this kind of life. They tried to make it exotic by picking an american girl in Japan but that doesn't make it special at all. Nevertheless it is well shot. Some of the scenes are a bit dark and with weird angles (in particular when they try to cut Alexandra Daddario's nudity) but it's part of the essence of the movie. I really appreciate that Alexandra Daddario is trying to explore new horizonts and different roles with these kind of films, but in my opinion she has to pick a little bit better focusing more on the quality of the story and not just the type.

"I really love this movie, the location of this movie is perfect, I really hate Takehiro Hira character but his performance and his acting is brilliant, Alexandra Daddario oh you will really like her in here, amazing movie"

This film is just so boring and slow that maybe it'll put you in a sleep. Not worth of your time at all. If you are a Daddario fan, there is a reason to skip this one surely.

The film's protagonist is a psychologically damaged western girl who leaves an unknown past behind and makes Japan her new home. She craves intimacy and finds it by sleeping with strangers willing to pay a room at the local "love hotel". She eventually settles with a Yakuza member, Japanese gangster. But this Japanese gangster is already engaged to another so the protagonist's relationship with him is just a fling. Unfortunately all we see is this girl self destruct by getting wasted on alcohol with her bar "friends". Endless sex scenes with guys in many submissive positions. She eventually implodes and loses her job and gets evicted. Unfortunately, I feel we never learn what has brought her to her current state in life. All we know is her father left the family, the mother passed away from cancer the year prior and the brother is a nut case. But we never meet those characters on the screen. This is explained in a very short scene and that's about as much depth we get. So the recurring theme here is that "Nothing Last". Good times are transitory just like the bloom of the Japanese Cherry Blossom. Dad disappears, mom passes from cancer, multiple men come in and out of her life, but she craves a stability she cannot find through love and alcohol. Definitely not a feel good movie. At first I was going to give it a 2/10, but I gave the movie more thought and understood the message overnight; I changed my mind I think it is an 8/10. I think I would have scored it a little higher had we known more about her past.

This is one of the worst Alexandra Daddario's movies Its so bad that you might skip or skim just to see what's next I am sure most viewer watch it just because Alex in it but what a waste I really can't believe how some actress's are accepting roles to get naked for some extra bucks without considering how that movie would reflect on their own resumé I feel sorry for her and her bad choice