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Over the course of a single night in pale Memphis--the home of legendary Sun Studio--a vivid triptych of romantic Rock n Roll pilgrimage; sad nostalgia; emotional Americana, and forgotten, decrepit places unfolds. Pivoting around the low-rent and almost dilapidated Arcade Hotel, the strange stories of four visitors unwittingly intertwine, as the aloof couple of Japanese teenagers--Mitsuko, who yearns to visit Graceland, and Jun, a sad-faced die-hard fan of --arrive in the Tennessee ghost town, in "Far from Yokohama". Likewise, the recently widowed Italian, Luisa, whos come to town from Rome to take her deceased husbands body back to Italy, winds up in the same hotel, sharing a room with the garrulous Dee-Dee, in "Ghost". Then, elsewhere in the city during the same endless night, the neighbourhoods barber, Charlie, reluctantly goes on a boozy binge with the unemployed British immigrant, Johnny, and, eventually, they both end up in the Arcade, in "Lost in Space". Of course, the mystical aura of an eternal, 1956-handsome haunts everything in this unforgettable night in Memphis. Is the King truly gone?
Three separate stories are told, they primarily tied together by the stories main subjects each staying at the same seedy Memphis hotel on the same night without knowing about the others. In "Far from Yokohama", eighteen year olds Jun and Mitzuko, a couple from Yokohama, are traveling on a budget, this trip a pilgrimage of sorts to visit the hot spots of their favorite 1950 and 1960s American rock musicians. About and in Memphis, they, with only Mitzuko knowing basic and very broken English and Jun knowing none, argue about whether to listen to and visit the places associated with his or her favorite - versus - while they also discuss whether Memphis is similar to Yokohama. In "A Ghost", Dee Dee and Luisa decide to share a room for the night out of circumstance, they not even having known each other until meeting in the hotel lobby. Dee Dee is escaping town in the break-up with her British "husband", Johnny, he often called Elvis in only slightly channeling the King in his looks, while Luisa is on an unexpected one day layover as she tries to make her way home to Rome. They may be sharing a room with a third, at least from Luisas perspective, that third who may be a manifestation of the issue of the dead that has pervaded her stay in town. And in "Lost in Space", Johnny, Dee Dees "husband", is rescued by Charlie, Dee Dees barber brother, and their mutual friend Will who believe drunk Johnny may be a threat to himself or others, Charlie and Will unaware of the issue of Dee Dee having run off. From an incident, they take refuge in the hotel until morning - Will having chosen this hotel for a specific reason - when they hope the issues surrounding that incident will have died down.
Masatoshi Nagase
Jun (segment "Far from Yokohama")
Yûki Kudô
Mitzuko (segment "Far from Yokohama")
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Night Clerk (segment "Far from Yokohama")
Cinqué Lee
Bellboy (segment "Far from Yokohama")
Rufus Thomas
Man in Station (segment "Far from Yokohama")
Jodie Markell
Sun Studio Guide (segment "Far from Yokohama")
William Hoch
Tourist Family (segment "Far from Yokohama")
Pat Hoch
Tourist Family (segment "Far from Yokohama")
Joshua Elvis Hoch
Tourist Family (segment "Far from Yokohama")
Reginald Freeman
Conductor (segment "Far from Yokohama")
Beverly Prye
Streetwalker (segment "Far from Yokohama")
Nicoletta Braschi
Luisa (segment "A Ghost")
Elizabeth Bracco
Dee Dee (segment "A Ghost")
Sy Richardson
Newsvendor (segment "A Ghost")
Tom Noonan
Man in Diner (segment "A Ghost")
Stephen Jones
The Ghost (segment "A Ghost")
Lowell Roberts
Lester (segment "A Ghost")
Sara Driver
Airport Clerk (segment "A Ghost")
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