. 2020. USA, Japan. tomatometers 4,7 / 10. 1456 Vote. 97 M

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If it wasn't for the few Alexandra's nude scenes, it would be a 1 star movie

The film's protagonist is a psychologically damaged western girl who leaves an unknown past behind and makes Japan her new home. She craves intimacy and finds it by sleeping with strangers willing to pay a room at the local "love hotel. She eventually settles with a Yakuza member, Japanese gangster. But this Japanese gangster is already engaged to another so the protagonist's relationship with him is just a fling. Unfortunately all we see is this girl self destruct by getting wasted on alcohol with her bar "friends. Endless sex scenes with guys in many submissive positions. She eventually implodes and loses her job and gets evicted.
Unfortunately, I feel we never learn what has brought her to her current state in life. All we know is her father left the family, the mother passed away from cancer the year prior and the brother is a nut case. But we never meet those characters on the screen. This is explained in a very short scene and that's about as much depth we get. So the recurring theme here is that "Nothing Last. Good times are transitory just like the bloom of the Japanese Cherry Blossom. Dad disappears, mom passes from cancer, multiple men come in and out of her life, but she craves a stability she cannot find through love and alcohol.
Definitely not a feel good movie. At first I was going to give it a 2/10, but I gave the movie more thought and understood the message overnight; I changed my mind I think it is an 8/10. I think I would have scored it a little higher had we known more about her past.