Lost Girls & Love Hotels

Margaret is an English teacher living in Tokyo, trying to put distance between herself and a painful past. By day she works at a training institute for flight attendants; at night she moves through the city's bars and love hotels, using drink, drugs and casual encounters to keep her memories of Canada and her troubled brother at bay. Her routine shifts when she becomes involved with Kazu, a Yakuza she meets in the city's nightlife, and the affair pulls her further into a world she cannot easily control.

The film is directed by William Olsson from a screenplay by Catherine Hanrahan, and it was released in September 2020. Alexandra Daddario plays Margaret, with Takehiro Hira as Kazu, Carice van Houten as Ines, Mariko Tsutsui as Mari and Anastasia Nasu as Irina among a credited cast of twenty-three. It runs ninety-seven minutes and was made as a co-production between the United States, Sweden and Japan.

Audience response on TMDB is modest, with a rating of 5.4 out of 10 from just over two hundred votes, and the film critics' rating stands at 5.5 out of 10 from twenty-four reviews, so critics and audiences landed in broadly similar territory.