Hotel Hibiscus

Friday, October 20th - 7:20pm
Sunday, October 22nd - 5:00pm
Wednesday, October 25th - 2:10pm

(2002, 92min)
Director: Yuji NAKAE
Cast: Honami KURASHITA, Kimiko YO, Masao TERUYA

Hotel Hibiscus has only one guest room. At the hotel, 9-year-old Miekolives happily with her father, her mother, her grandmother and half brother and sister. On her way home from school, Mieko saves a teenage boy named Notojima and he becomes the hotel's sole guest. Along with her classmates, Mieko spends her days trying to find “Kijimuna”, the Forest Fairy.

One day, her mother and half sister depart for the States to meet her sister's real father, leaving Mieko very busy with all the cooking and cleaning chores at the hotel. She delivers a letter to her father, who's working at a pineapple orchard, and meets a strange old man who calls himself Old Man Kijimuna. She also runs into a girl that's a dead ringer for herself. Mieko's summer holiday is filled with all sorts of adventures…