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Cinema Guild Acquires North American Rights To Restored Prints Of Shinji Somai Classics ‘The Friends’ & ‘Love Hotel’


Cinema Guild will release ‘The Friends' & ‘Love Hotel’ in the U.S.

Love Hotel will open on April 4 at Metrograph in New York City before expanding nationwide while The Friends is slated for a summer theatrical release. We’re very proud to continue this project with these two films, representing two distinct periods of his production in two very different genres, which nevertheless both exhibit his truly inimitable touch.” Upcoming releases from the buzzy company also include Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me, Hong Sangsoo’s By the Stream, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, and the films of João César Monteiro.

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