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* MsFanservice: Margaret is very attractive, and shows a lot of nudity while having casual sex with men (albeit mostly from the back).

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* MsFanservice: Margaret is very attractive, and shows a lot of nudity while having casual sex with men (albeit [[ToplessnessFromTheBack mostly from the back).back]]).
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American expat Margaret lives in Tokyo, Japan, teaching Japanese women training to be flight attendants correct English pronunciations. By night, she gets drunk with other expats and hooks up with random Japanese men in Tokyo's many love hotels. This causes her to often show up at work tired and late, which concerns her instructor Nakamura.

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American expat Margaret lives in Tokyo, Japan, teaching Japanese women training to be flight attendants correct English pronunciations. By night, she gets drunk with other expats and hooks up with random Japanese men in Tokyo's many love hotels. This causes her to often show up at work tired and late, which concerns her school instructor Nakamura.
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* LoveHotel: The source of half the film's title. All except one of Margaret's many sexual encounters take place in them, mostly hooking up with random men (though she meets Kazu multiple times). Kazu also runs one, she learns.

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* LoveHotel: The source of half the film's title. All except one of Margaret's many sexual encounters take place in them, mostly hooking up with random men (though she meets Kazu multiple times). Kazu also runs one, she learns.
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* EroticAsphyxiation: Margaret likes being choked during sex, saying it's all that gets her off. It's implied this is due to having a death wish too, and enjoying the sensation as a result.
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American expat Margaret lives in Tokyo, Japan, teaching Japanese women training to be flight attendants English pronunciation. By night, she gets drunk with other expats and hooks up with random Japanese men in Tokyo's many love hotels. This causes her to often show up at work tired and late, which concerns her instructor Nakamura.

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American expat Margaret lives in Tokyo, Japan, teaching Japanese women training to be flight attendants correct English pronunciation.pronunciations. By night, she gets drunk with other expats and hooks up with random Japanese men in Tokyo's many love hotels. This causes her to often show up at work tired and late, which concerns her instructor Nakamura.

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* BondageIsBad: Margaret describes herself as a submissive, and clearly is a masochist, as she likes to be choked, saying it's all that gets her off. In the film it's shown as a symptom of her depression and desire to die.
* DeathSeeker: After the last man she goes to a love hotel with says he easily could kill her after she's been tied up to the bed, Margaret begs him to. It was foreshadowed with her love of being choked during sex.

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* BondageIsBad: Margaret describes herself as a submissive, DarkAndTroubledPast: Margaret's father abandoned her, then her mother died from cancer, and clearly is a masochist, as she likes to be choked, saying it's all that gets her off. In brother developed schizophrenia. That's probably the film it's shown as a symptom source of her depression and desire to die.
suicidal desires.
* DeathSeeker: After the last man she goes to a love hotel with says he easily could kill her after she's been tied up to the bed, Margaret begs him to. It was foreshadowed with her love of being choked during sex. sex.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Margaret suffers from severe depression and suffers greatly due to this during the film, with her coming close to dying. By the end though it seems she's turned this around somewhat and goes home into the US, feeling reborn.
* LoveHotel: The source of half the film's title. All except one of Margaret's many sexual encounters take place in them, mostly hooking up with random men (though she meets Kazu multiple times). Kazu also runs one, she learns.
* MsFanservice: Margaret is very attractive, and shows a lot of nudity while having casual sex with men (albeit mostly from the back).
* NaughtyByNight: Margaret is just an ordinary English teacher during the day. During the night, she's getting drunk or having sex in love hotels with men.
* ParentalAbandonment: Margaret lost both her parents. Her dad left, then her mom died of cancer.
* ReallyGetsAround: Margaret has casual sex it seems almost every night of the week, hooking up with random men in love hotels.
* TattooedCrook: Kazu, in keeping with the Yakuza tradition, is heavily tattooed all across his torso.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Margaret shows herself this way multiple times after undressing.



* {{Yubitsume}}: {{Discussed}} when Margaret asks her lover Kazu, a Yakuza member, about this practice, and he tells her what it's about.

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* {{Yubitsume}}: {{Discussed}} when Margaret asks her lover Kazu, a Yakuza member, about this practice, and he tells her what it's about.for.
* WallBangHer: The last time Margaret and Kazu have sex it's with him behind her up against a wall.
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American expat Margaret lives in Tokyo, Japan, teaching Japanese women training to be flight attendants English pronunciation. By night, she gets drunk with other expats and hooks up with random Japanese men in Tokyo's many love hotels. This causes her to often show up at work tired and late, which concerns her instructor Nakamura.

Crossing paths with Kazu, a Yakuza enforcer, Margaret is drawn to him and they begin a relationship. Kazu tries to help Margaret with her demons, but leaves her after this fails. Margaret sinks into more increasingly self-destructive behavior, despondent after this.

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* BondageIsBad: Margaret describes herself as a submissive, and clearly is a masochist, as she likes to be choked, saying it's all that gets her off. In the film it's shown as a symptom of her depression and desire to die.
* DeathSeeker: After the last man she goes to a love hotel with says he easily could kill her after she's been tied up to the bed, Margaret begs him to. It was foreshadowed with her love of being choked during sex.
* {{Yakuza}}: Kazu is a Yakuza member, and has the tattoos of his clan over his torso.
* {{Yubitsume}}: {{Discussed}} when Margaret asks her lover Kazu, a Yakuza member, about this practice, and he tells her what it's about.

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