Already adapted into a (not so good) movie with the same name in 2021, “Hotel Iris” is one of the most renowned books by Yoko Ogawa, a writer famous for winning every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize, along with a number of international ones.
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The 164-page novel begins in a quiet Japanese seaside town, one of those resorts filled with tourists during summer and nearly empty in winter. Mari, a 17-year-old girl, helps her controlling mother run the titular hotel after her father’s death years earlier. Her mother refuses to let her out of her sight, partly because she needs help managing the hotel, which employs only a maid besides the two, and partly because she prioritizes the hotel’s survival over her daughter’s well-being.
However, one fateful night, after an incident involving...
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The 164-page novel begins in a quiet Japanese seaside town, one of those resorts filled with tourists during summer and nearly empty in winter. Mari, a 17-year-old girl, helps her controlling mother run the titular hotel after her father’s death years earlier. Her mother refuses to let her out of her sight, partly because she needs help managing the hotel, which employs only a maid besides the two, and partly because she prioritizes the hotel’s survival over her daughter’s well-being.
However, one fateful night, after an incident involving...
- 5/13/2025
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Transferring Yoko Ogawa’s “Hotel Iris” to cinema is not exactly an easy task, since the combination of sadomasochistic love and mystery is presented through a rather minimalist prism, which thrives mostly due to its atmosphere than the individual episodes. However, it is with great pleasure that I say that Hiroshi Okuhara has done a splendid job.
Hotel Iris is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Hotel Iris is placed in a somewhat decrepit Taiwanese coast, which tourists and locals seem to share with a number of prostitutes. The hotel is run by a woman in her 50’s who seems set on appearing much younger than she actually is, a tendency that extends to the way she dresses and makes up her face, and the way she conducts herself along younger men. At the same time, she has a rather passive-aggressive relationship with her lonely, half-Taiwanese daughter Mari, which is...
Hotel Iris is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Hotel Iris is placed in a somewhat decrepit Taiwanese coast, which tourists and locals seem to share with a number of prostitutes. The hotel is run by a woman in her 50’s who seems set on appearing much younger than she actually is, a tendency that extends to the way she dresses and makes up her face, and the way she conducts herself along younger men. At the same time, she has a rather passive-aggressive relationship with her lonely, half-Taiwanese daughter Mari, which is...
- 3/11/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
WikiLeaks founder to judge films at the 21st Raindance Film Festival; 2013 line-up unveiled.Scroll down for full line-up of films
Julian Assange has joined the jury of the 21st Raindance Film Festival (Sept 25 - Oct 6), a London-based event that celebrates independent film in the UK and around the world.
The appointment is a controversial one. The Australian editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning about sexual assault allegations.
It is understood that he fears Sweden would extradite him to the Us, where he believes he is wanted in relation to WikiLeaks’ disclosure of a significant amount of classified Us military and diplomatic documents.
Commenting on Assange’s appointment, Raindance founder Elliot Grove said: “Every year Raindance invites interesting people to join our jury. In the past we have had musicians like Mick Jones, Marky Ramone and [link...
Julian Assange has joined the jury of the 21st Raindance Film Festival (Sept 25 - Oct 6), a London-based event that celebrates independent film in the UK and around the world.
The appointment is a controversial one. The Australian editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning about sexual assault allegations.
It is understood that he fears Sweden would extradite him to the Us, where he believes he is wanted in relation to WikiLeaks’ disclosure of a significant amount of classified Us military and diplomatic documents.
Commenting on Assange’s appointment, Raindance founder Elliot Grove said: “Every year Raindance invites interesting people to join our jury. In the past we have had musicians like Mick Jones, Marky Ramone and [link...
- 9/3/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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