Ghostwriter Hotel
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- Movie: Ghostwriter Hotel
- Romaji: Gosutoraita Hoteru
- Japanese: ゴーストライターホテル
- Director: Hiroaki Ito
- Writer:
- Producer:
- Cinematographer:
- World Premiere: March 23, 2011 (Okinawa International Movie Festival)
- Release Date: 2011
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- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
The aspiring writer, Bunichi Utsumi, has never fi nished a novel. He makes a living as a book critic but with unsteady earnings, his wife is fed up. As a last hope, he stays at "Hontendo Hotel", renowned for its patrons of literary masters who have stayed incognito while completing their works. He tries to write, just like the masters. However, the hotel's known by another name ? "Haunted". Screams of the tortured souls of past writers echoes throughout. Apparitions of past literar y greats such as Souseki Natsume, Kenji Miyazawa appear.-- Okinawa International Movie Festival
Cast
- Tsuyoshi Abe - Bunichi Utsumi
- Makoto Sakamoto - Kazuma Iwano
- Tetsuhiro Ikeda - Kanji Sagimiya
- Ami Suzuki - Megumi Kamei
- Chiaki Kuriyama - Naoko Utsumi (cameo)
- Atsumu Watanabe - Soseki Natsume
- Kendo Kobayashi - Kenji Miyazawa
- Kenji Murakami - Osamu Dazai
- Hayashi Katatsumuri - Ougai Mori
- Takanori Takeyama - Rampo Edogawa
- Mari Okamoto - Fumiko Hayashi
- Hayato Horiuchi
Film Festivals
- 2011 (3rd) Okinawa International Movie Festival - March 18 - 27, 2011 - Peace Category *World Premiere
