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New Rose Hotel
DVD cover for New Rose HotelDirected by Abel Ferrara Produced by Edward R. Pressman Written by Abel Ferrara
Christ ZoisBased on New Rose Hotel by William Gibson Starring Christopher Walken
Willem Dafoe
Asia ArgentoMusic by Schoolly D Cinematography Ken Kelsch Editing by Jim Mol
Anthony RedmanRelease date(s) October 1, 1999 Running time 93 min Country United States Language English Box office $21,521 New Rose Hotel is a 1998 Cyberpunk film by director Abel Ferrara, based on a William Gibson story of the same name, starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento.
Plot synopsis
Fox (Walken) and X (Dafoe) are corporate extraction specialists, half headhunters, half kidnappers, who specialise in helping R&D scientists relocate from corporations who would rather see them dead than working for their competitors. Fox is obsessed with one Hiroshi (played by Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano), a paradigm-shattering super-genius who is currently working for Maas, the corporation (Gibson employs the pre-WWII term zaibatsu) who crippled him. To that end, Fox and X employ Sandii (Argento), a "Shinjuku-girl", or small-time hustler/call girl, to help "persuade" Hiroshi to defect to Hosaka, another zaibatsu to which Fox is somewhat warmer. Fox is responsible for brokering the deal with Hosaka, Sandii for getting Hiroshi to fall in love with her and defect to a Hosaka lab in Marrakech (Fox and X are based in Tokyo, hence their ability to pick up a Shinjuku girl), and X is responsible for teaching Sandii how to make Hiroshi melt.
Cast
- Christopher Walken .... Fox
- Willem Dafoe .... X
- Asia Argento .... Sandii
- Annabella Sciorra .... Madame Rosa
- John Lurie .... Distinguished Man
- Kimmy Suzuki .... Asian Girl #1
- Miou .... Asian Girl #2
- Yoshitaka Amano .... Hiroshi
- Gretchen Mol .... Hiroshi's Wife
External links
- New Rose Hotel at the Internet Movie Database
- New Rose Hotel at AllRovi
- New Rose Hotel at Rotten Tomatoes
Films directed by Abel Ferrara 1970s 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (1976) • The Driller Killer (1979)1980s 1990s King of New York (1990) • Bad Lieutenant (1992) • Body Snatchers (1993) • Dangerous Game (1993) • The Addiction (1995) • The Funeral (1996) • The Blackout (1997) • New Rose Hotel (1998)2000s 'R Xmas (2001) • Mary (2005) • Go Go Tales (2007) • Chelsea on the Rocks (2008) • Napoli Napoli Napoli (2009)2010s 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)William Gibson List of works · List of awards and nominations Novels Bigend booksOtherShort stories "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" · "Johnny Mnemonic" · "The Gernsback Continuum" · "Hinterlands" · "New Rose Hotel" · "The Belonging Kind" · "Burning Chrome" · "Red Star, Winter Orbit" · "The Winter Market" · "Dogfight" · "Skinner's Room" · Burning Chrome collectionNonfiction Characters Tessier-Ashpool · Molly Millions · Bobby Newmark · Rei Toei · Konrad · Cayce Pollard · Hubertus BigendStory elements Derivative works Neuromancer video game · Johnny Mnemonic film · New Rose Hotel film · "Kill Switch" · "First Person Shooter" · Node MagazineCategories:- English-language films
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