Trailer - Night King

Trailer for Kenichi Fujiwara‘s “Night King”, slated for release on Saturday (1/10) in Japan. The story is set in the late 60s, a time when Tokyo was growing at an incredible rate and the first host and hostess clubs were springing up in the city. Host clubs hire young men to basically pay attention to female customers, dance with them, and pour their drinks for them. These women are usually well-off and feel neglected by their husbands, so they pay exorbitant sums of money for the experience.

The film stars Issei Ishida as a charismatic host named Takeshi Enomoto. Enomoto originally moved to Shinjuku from Niigata with no tangible skills other than his ability to woo women. When this skill gets him fired from his job, he finds his true calling in the male host biz. Unfortunately, the life of a host is not an easy one, and unexpected rivalries soon crop up. Rei Yoshii (Love My Life) also stars as his love interest.

The Enomoto character is largely based on real-life host club pioneer Kanko Aida, who is now the president of Aidakanko Group: a massive host club operation that employs over 300 hosts at any given time at various gaudily-decorated clubs in Shinjuku.

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