Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hotel and finds out that he lives in a big house with his wife and children. In the darkness, Moeko suddenly stands in front of Kariya with a camera in her hands. The shutter's sound resounds through the room. When it fades away, Moeko has vanished... Raffles Hotel is the third cinematic venture adapted from his own book by the famous writer Murakami Ryu, who debuted with a semi-autobiographical novel, Almost Transparent Blue in 1980 and won the Akutagawa Prize, the most authoritative literary prize in Japan. Depicting many graphic acts of sex and violence, the film raised much controversies during its release in Japan.