Hotel Iris (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. Heading up to investigate, she witnesses a distraught woman in a red camisole dress escape an impeccably dressed but violent man (NAGASE Masatoshi) whose cold voice is entrancing. Mari’s initial shock turns into a strange fascination which drives her to follow the man to discover more about him. He is a translator who lives on an isolated island one can only reach by boat and rumours swirl around him and recent murders. The closer she gets to the man, the more a hidden layer of Mari’s personality awakens as she allows herself to be engulfed by his strange passions…
Director: Hiroshi Okuhara
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Masatoshi Nagase as Violent Man |
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Lucia as Mari |
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Nahana as Mari's mother |
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Kanichiro as |
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Umin Boya as |
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Lee Kang-sheng as Boatman |
| Art | Hirokazu Kanakatsu | Production Design |
| Editing | Chen Hung-i | Editor |
| Editing | Hiroshi Okuhara | Editor |
| Camera | Yu Jing Ping | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Hiroshi Okuhara | Writer |
| Directing | Hiroshi Okuhara | Director |
| Sound | Slawomir Kowalewski | Original Music Composer |