The Uchoten Hotel
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- Movie: The Uchoten Hotel / The Wow-Choten Hotel / Suite Dreams
- Romaji: Uchoten hoteru
- Japanese: 有頂天ホテル / ＴＨＥ 有頂天ホテル
- Director: Koki Mitani
- Writer: Koki Mitani
- Producer: Minami Ichikawa, Chihiro Kameyama, Yasushi Ogawa, Yumiko Shigeoka, Yoshinari Shimatani
- Cinemotagraphy: Hideo Yamamoto
- Release Date: January 14, 2006
- Runtime: 136 min.
- Distributor: Toho
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Koji Yakusho leads the pack as one of a pair of mismatched and dueling Deputy Managers. His courteous and gentlemanly character is our guide through the ensuing tribulations as he tries to maintain calm and placate the increasingly oddball General Manager.
As if staff politics and preparations for the party alone were not enough to deal with, his professional headaches worsen when his ex-wife turns up on the arm of a renowned academic leading a convention of deer specialists. But before the night is out, this domestic issue will pale in comparison to other successive problems which threaten further catastrophe. Not only does a scandal-stricken politician hole up in the hotel pursued by the entire press corps but a famous crooner chooses this night to contemplate a highly-visible suicide.
In time-honored tradition, deception piles on top of misunderstanding as nine different layers of story are interwoven in a grand tapestry of the human condition. The audience is uniquely privy to the host of mistaken identities and inevitable subterfuge but just when it seems all might spin out of control, we feel the sure hand of a consummate playwright guiding us. All the threads are gathered and everything works out for the best. Even the ventriloquist's fugitive duck plays a part in bringing about the final grand, redemption.
Cast
- Koji Yakusho - Heikichi Shindo
- Takako Matsu - Hana Takemoto
- Koichi Sato - Katsutoshi Mutoda
- Shingo Katori - Kenji Tadano
- Ryoko Shinohara - Yoko the Call Girl
- Keiko Toda - Tokiko Yabe
- Katsuhisa Namase - Takashi Seo
- Kumiko Aso - Naomi Ohara
- You - Sakura Cherry
- Joe Odagiri - Ukon
- Takuzo Kadono - Mamoru Hotta
- Susumu Terajima - Jose Kochi
- Kazuyuki Asano - Mamoru Jimbo
- Yoshimasa Kondo - Naomasa Bando
- Jiei Kabira - Tange
- Keiko Horiuchi - Mutsuko Noma
- Zen Kajiwara - Bito
- Masanori Ishii - Kurodo
- Mieko Harada - Yumi Hotta
- Toshiaki Karasawa - Juichi Akamaru
- Masahiko Tsugawa - Kenji Bando
- Shiro Ito - The General Maneger
- Toshiyuki Nishida - Zenbu Tokugawa
- Kazuyuki Aijima - The Guardman
- Hyoei Enoki - Mannojo Sakata
- Madoka Narasaki - Bonita
- Madoka Narazaki - Bonita Kochi
- Haruka Orth - Marilyn Monroe
- Aya Takashima - The screaming woman
- Naoki Tanaka - Naosuke Iijima
- Akiko Yagi - Tamiko Iijima
- Koichi Yamadera - Dabudabu Duck (voice)
- Hajime Inoue
- Minoru Sawatari
- Michiko Shimizu
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