Seaside Motel (2010)
"Shîsaido môteru" (original title)

Director:

Kentarô Moriya

Writers:

Yukio Okada, Ryû Kakinomoto (screenplay),

Stars:

Tôma Ikuta, Kumiko Asô, Takayuki Yamada

Cast

Credited cast:
Tôma Ikuta	...	Masayuki Kameda
Kumiko Asô	...	Candi
Takayuki Yamada	...	Yosuke Asakura
Tetsuji Tamayama	...	Toshio Aida
Riko Narumi	...	Rui Ninomiya
Arata Furuta	...	Katsutoshi Ohta
Yôichi Nukumizu	...	Pepe
Hijiri Kojima	...	Misaki Ohta
Tetsuhiro Ikeda	...	Tatsuya Ishizuka
Tokio Emoto	...	Chiibo
Mami Yamasaki	...	Malin
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Masaaki Akahori	...	Yusuke Miki
Seiji Nozoe	...	Yasuhiko Rokusha

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

two word title | place name in title

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [jp]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

5 June 2010 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Seaside Motel

Company Credits

Production Co:

Asmik Ace Entertainment, J Storm, Media Factory

Technical Specs

Runtime:

103 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Masayuki kameda: You see sometimes fake stuff can turn into genuine.

User Reviews

Charming and quirky in that inimitable Japanese way

The Seaside Motel is trapped in the mountains, without even enough water to serve their guests 24 hours a day, much less having a view of a body of water of any kind.

The plot centers on the misadventures of the occupants of four rooms at the dirty, run down motel over the course of one very eventful night. A cheerful hooker accidentally calls on the wrong room and wins the heart of a young cosmetics salesman. A wealthy married couple, middle aged man and pretty young wife, suffer from his erectile dysfunction and go about solving the problem in the wrong ways. A man deceives his bar hostess date, who happens to be a germ freak, and, finally, a gambler in debt to the Yakuza and his girlfriend, with endless and annoying questions, receive a visit from Yakuza bill collectors.

What the Japanese filmmakers can do better than almost anyone else is give Fate a "last chance" workout a la The Biggest Loser. While not as funny, in my opinion, as Survive Style 5, Seaside Motel manipulates the fates of the various room occupants to collide in similar fashion.

Overall, I found it a fun movie to distract me from other concerns.