Petrel Hotel Blue (海燕ホテル・ブルー) 12 years old

Petrel Hotel Blue

Petrel Hotel Blue is about friends Yoji, Yukio, and Kohei attempting a vehicular robbery. Yoji never shows, Kohei flakes at the scene, and Yukio takes the fall for the failed endeavor. Years later, Yukio is freed from prison and enacts a revenge plot against Yoji. From this point, one might anticipate an unsympathetic vengeance story consistent with the Asian arthouse of the past decade, but with Wakamatsu the intrigue is a pretense. Yukio traces Yoji to the isolated island hotel that he now manages with a sensuous and silent woman named Rika. From this desolate environ, literally a kind of primordial Nowhere replete with ominous black volcanic sand, reality quickly deteriorates. Tensions and rivalries rise, things are said, people are killed, dreams are inhabited, space and time crumble. The catalyst of this degeneration, and the cause for Yoji’s absence all those years ago is one and the same: Rika. And she has curves that will make you blush.

Credits

Petrel Hotel Blue Cast

Name Character
Shima Ohnishi He was 36, now 49 years old
Nao Okabe He was 31, now 44 years old
Go Jibiki He was 36, now 48 years old
Arata Iura He was 37, now 50 years old
Kiyohiko Shibukawa He was 37, now 50 years old
Ryûshi Mizukami

Petrel Hotel Blue Crew

Name Department
Kumiko Sakamoto as Editor. She was 39 (now 51) years old Editing
Kōji Wakamatsu as Director. He was 75 (76) years old when He died Directing
Kōji Wakamatsu as Writer. He was 75 (76) years old when He died Writing
Hisako Kurosawa as Screenplay. She was 43 (now 55) years old Writing
Jim O'Rourke as Original Music Composer. He was 43 (now 55) years old Sound
Petrel Hotel Blue (12 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, March 24, 2012
  • Runtime: 84 minutes