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What do you get lost in? Is it perfectly mundane or something deeper, even darker, than the pursuits of your public persona? The new film “Lost Girls & Love Hotels” explores one woman’s pull towards the latter as an escape. Running from the past and facing an uncertain future in a foreign land it questions the constructs of what we hide from, not to mention how we do it.

Endless drunken sex in exotic locales is no kind of fun for the star of William Olsson's Lost Girls & Love Hotels, a sober adaptation of Catherine Hanrahan's novel of the same name. Running away from herself —assuming she has a coherent self to run from —a young American woman remains just employed enough to pay rent in Tokyo while spending the rest of her time drunk and/or in bed with strangers at the quirky pay-by-the-hour destinations that hold such appeal for tourists.

While traveling isn’t an option right now, let the dark and moody trailer for “Lost Girls & Love Hotels” transport you to Japan. The film, based on Catherine Hanrahan’s 2006 book of the same name, follows an American English teacher named Margaret, played by Alexandra Daddario (“True Detective”), in Tokyo.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerAstrakan Film AB will release Lost Girls & Love Hotels in select theaters and on VOD September 4. From director William Olsson, the drama, which is an adaptation of Hanrahan’s 2006 novel of the same name, stars Alexandra Daddario (San Andreas, True Detective), Carice van Houten (Game Of Thrones, The Glass Room), and Takehiro Hira (The Fighter Pilot, The Floating Castle),Written by Catherine Hanrahan, the pic follows an American English teacher named Margaret (Daddario) and her nightly pilgrimages through Tokyo’s glittering nightlife in an attempt to forget her painful past and discover new meaning in the arms of a mysterious Yakuza (Hira) named Kazu.