Storyville
Season 19 Episode 5 - Love Hotel
Through remarkable access, this documentary explores daily life inside a Japanese 'love hotel'. In this intimate portrait, we meet the everyday people who frequent the fantasy-themed rooms for refuge, privacy and play - a married couple visit to keep a spark alive in their relationship, two gay lawyers have nowhere else to stay and a popular dominatrix runs a thriving business. Pay by the hour or the night and order sexy underwear, condoms or anything else imaginable. Anything goes at the Angelo Love Hotel in Osaka, run by manager Ozawa and his efficient staff. Small living spaces, long work hours and the need for privacy drive 2.8 million Japanese a day to visit 'love hotels'. But now, these unique establishments are fighting to stay afloat against the 'entertainment police' who are shutting them down for what conservative groups deem to be overly risqué elements. A rare glimpse into a world destined to disappear.
Episodes in Season 19
The Arabian Motorcycle Adventures
85 min
The Internet's Own Boy
85 min
Mugabe and the Democrats
85 min
Bulldozers, Paving Stones and Power: The Chinese Mayor
85 min
Love Hotel
85 min
The Great Sex Addict Heist: The Dog
85 min
Love Is All: 100 Years of Love and Courtship
85 min
The Great European Disaster Movie
85 min
1.7 Billion Dollar Fraud: Full Exposure
85 min
India's Daughter
85 min
Rocking Cambodia: Rise of a Pop Diva
85 min
The Lost Gold of the Highlands
85 min
Masterspy of Moscow: George Blake
85 min
My Mother the Secret Baby
85 min
Himmler: The Decent One
85 min
Last Days of Vietnam
85 min
Circus Elephant Rampage
85 min
Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise
85 min
A Syrian Love Story
85 min
Lockerbie: My Brother's Bomber
85 min
Dreamcatcher: Surviving Chicago's Streets
85 min
Orion: The Man Who Would Be King
85 min
Cartel Land
85 min
FBI Undercover
85 min
The Six-Day War: Censored Voices
85 min
