New Rose Hotel (1998) on Netflix
Fox and X are industrial spies in Tokyo. Hosaka hires them to bring the genius Dr. Hiroshi out of Maas, and they enlist the nightclub singer Sandii to persuade him.
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Dr. Hiroshi is a super-genius working for Maas, the German corporation behind the injury that leaves the spy Fox limping. Fox and his partner X, who make a living in Tokyo moving research scientists out of the corporations that employ them, are hired by the Japanese company Hosaka to bring Hiroshi to a new laboratory in Marrakesh, and they negotiate a fee of $100 million. To reach him they recruit Sandii, a nightclub singer in Shinjuku who also works as a call girl, and train her for the extraction. While coaching her, X falls in love with Sandii, whose stories about her past do not match, and Fox is cynical about the pair. Sandii goes to Vienna to persuade Hiroshi to leave his wife and move to Hosaka.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about New Rose Hotel (1998)
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- Edward R. Pressman had owned the film rights to Gibson's short story since the late 1980s. Before Abel Ferrara became involved Kathryn Bigelow was originally set to direct, and Ferrara's regular collaborator Zoë Lund wrote a first draft of the script in 1996 that went unused.
- Abel Ferrara says both Virginie Ledoyen and Chloë Sevigny were considered for the role of Sandii, and he also claims that Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered for the role of Fox.
- During production, director Abel Ferrara fired many of the film's crew members, including some long-time collaborators such as composer Joe Delia.
- Asia Argento made her own documentary about the film's director, Abel Ferrara, titled Abel/Asia (1998), during the making of New Rose Hotel.
