New Rose Hotel

New Rose Hotel is a 1998 American erotic science fiction drama film co-written and directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento. It is based on William Gibson's 1984 short story of the same name. Plot Fox (Walken) and X (Dafoe) are Tokyo-based freelance industrial spies who specialize in helping R&D scientists defect from corporations who would rather see them dead than working for competitors. Fox is obsessed with Dr. Hiroshi (Yoshitaka Amano), a paradigm-shattering super-genius who works for Maas, the corporation that crippled Fox. Japanese firm Hosaka hires Fox and X to help Hiroshi defect, offering a fee of $50 million. Fox and X hire Sandii (Argento), a small-time nightclub singer and call girl in Shinjuku, to help persuade Hiroshi to defect to a newly-outfitted Hosaka lab in Marrakech. While training her for the extraction, X falls in love with Sandii, who offers conflicting accounts of her past. Fox and X meet with representatives from Hosaka and negotiate their fee up to $100 million. Sandii meets Hiroshi in Vienna and persuades him to leave his wife and defect to Hosaka. Fox then travels to Marrakech to await Hiroshi's arrival, and X arranges to spend a night with Sandii in Berlin before her rendezvous in Marrakech. Sandii proposes that she and X leave Fox, marry, and live together. X offers to discuss it after Sandii visits Marrakech.That night, while Sandii sleeps, X rummages through her personal effects, finding cash, information about her aliases, and an unmarked computer chip.