It is said that half of all sex in Japan happens in a love hotel. 1% of the population uses a love hotel on any single day; something like 1,370,000 couples. A large proportion of the nation's new babies are conceived in a love hotel. There are 500 million visits a year. Room occupancy is 600-700% in some busy establishments -- 78.8 stays per room per month! The love hotel industry has an annual turnover of ¥4 trillion yen, which is around four times the operating profits of Toyota and double the anime industry. And yet it's cars and anime that the government wants to push as the face ...

We've just heard of this new documentary which takes a look at one of our favorite places, the love hotel. While we don't like the preview's slightly cheap pandering to exoticism and stereotypes about Japan ("in a society where conformity is everything and public affection cannot be shown..." -- really?) that just aren't the whole truth, we shouldn't judge it solely by the trailer. The visuals are interesting, at any rate, promising some nice kinky scenes of S&M inside a love hotel room, by the looks of things. Check out the nurse asking her "patient" if his cock has a ...