The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing - which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian - dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Takahiro Nishijima Hikari Mitsushima Sakura Ando Makiko Watanabe Atsuro Watabe Yutaka Shimizu Hiroyuki Onoue Tasuku Nagaoka Sow Hirosawa Yūko Genkaku Mami Nakamura Arata Yamanaka Junya Iwamoto Motoki Ochiai Sango Atsushi Yamanaka Kōichi Koshimura Shingo Tanaka Ryuichi Suzuki Kiyomi Aratani Yūya Kawamura Runa Teramoto Nanami Hinata Kunihiro Suda Mitsuyo Ishigaki Kioo Ikeda Chisato Kawai Hiroko Harada Ryuta Furuya Show All…
Exposición de amor, Ai no mukidashi, 러브 익스포져, 爱之剥脱, ลิขิตรัก นักส่อง กกน., Exposição de Amor, Откровение любви, Dedesubturile iubirii, Miłość obnażona, Pod vlivem lásky, 愛のむきだし：2009, 愛のむきだし：2009：01, 愛のむきだし：2009：02, Αγάπης Εκρηξη, Szerelem expozíció, 愛のむきだし, Ai no Mukidashi, Aşka Maruz a.k.a. Love Exposure, Одкровення любові, 爱的曝光, 愛的曝光
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Tokyo FILMeX
Germany
Berlin International Film Festival
Japan
Germany
Japan
I never thought I'd love a four hour movie about an erection so much.
Sometimes life surprises you.
Love Exposure has the greatest story I have ever seen depicted on film. The movie's scope is incredible: a four hour love story that weaves religious dogma, ultra-violence, perversion, and a million other topics into a flawless tapestry. This is a film that needs to be experienced in one devoted play-though, free of distractions, so that you can get invested in the complex characters and their tragically doomed relationships. Like my Daisies review, I will first discuss why you need to watch the film in the first paragraph, then I will get into dissecting the reasons why this movie is amazing.
Four hours is a lot of time to invest in a movie, as it falls into that awkward space…
they should’ve just stopped making movies after love exposure. pack up, go home, it’s over, nothing will ever top this.
My head is spinning, my cheeks are red. Sion Sono just gave me the biggest slap of my life.
"Bakayaro! You think you've seen everything." yelled Sono. He proceeded to strip and expose me, grabbed my genitals and dragged me out of my comfort zone.
What laid before my eyes was an entirely new form of art, unlike anything I've ever seen. Behold, the beauty of discomfort, the magnificence of perversion! Ai No Mukidashi!
And I was drooling, so hard, for four fucking hours. I've taken a drug two times more powerful than Miike's. No matter how I see it, the film just doesn't seem to fit into this bland universe. The manic editing, the utterly bizzare plot. But yet…
Why pray? Why sin? Why disguise yourself, dress up as a pervert? Why yell when you can speak, run when you can walk, cry when you can smile? Why kill, bleed, drool? Why give up on your life and your family and your religion? Why betray your God? Why fall apart, beyond any hope of reassembly? Why struggle at all?
Because love. Love sits above all else. A cheesy message, but one fucking hell of a delivery.
It's the greatest film of the 21st century by a long long way.
Sorry Inland Empire
Sorry Blissfully Yours
Sorry The Tree of Life
Sorry Sparrow
Sorry In the Mood for Love
Sorry Yi Yi
Sorry Enter the Void
Sorry A Bittersweet Life
Sorry To the Wonder
Sorry 3-Iron
Sorry Only God Forgives
Sorry 2046
Sorry The Turin Horse
Sorry Brick
Sorry Synecdoche New York
Sorry Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Sorry City of God
Sorry Russian Ark
Sorry Requiem for a Dream
Sorry Under the Skin
Sorry The Cremaster Cycle
Sorry Mulholland Dr.
Sorry Cache
Sorry Werckmeister Harmonies
Sorry Regular Lovers
Sorry Irreversible
Sorry Upstream Colour
Sorry Goodbye Dragon Inn
Sorry There Will Be Blood
Sorry Lost in…
“Jesus, I approve of you as the only cool man besides Kurt Cobain.”
Even though I’m fairly liberal with giving five star ratings and expressing how much I love certain movies, I cannot understate what an overwhelmingly unbelievable force this movie is. Clocking in at four hours long, Sion Sono’s Love Exposure is one of the most effortlessly exciting, constantly engaging watches ever; and not even just relative to its length. I felt like I was going to burst with elation at any given point as it spews out unadulterated weirdness and increasingly bizarre, unexpected twists in the already elaborate, perverse plot - eliciting a spectrum of feelings as it deftly shifts between being super funny to thrilling to genuinely…
if someone was a sion sono fan and is struggling with the news, i just wanted to say you can talk to me anytime here or on discord - i'm always free - and i'll support you all. i feel a lot of pain since this is my favorite movie and i watched it every day, love exposure is a movie that i could relate to a lot and helped me with a lot of trauma. i was also able to meet a lot of nice people because of it - but also scary people. i think i made most of my best friendships because we had love exposure in common (btw theres a person that liked it as well…
Holy shit! This is the goddamn hentai-fu epic I didn't know I needed in my life.
Look, I love Korean cinema, and I'm legit really happy that Bong Joon-ho managed to win an Oscar for Parasite, which is a great film, don't get me wrong. But, Y'ALL DONE FORGOT ABOUT JAPAN!!!!
Sion Sono is over there making fucking masterpieces, and almost none of you are talking about this mad genius. Why is that, huh?!
When I think there's fast-buck merchants like Scorcese and Spielberg out there, grabbing all the publicity, and here's Sono creating pieces of this caliber, it makes me wanna weep.
What's that? It's too long for you? NONSENSE!!!
It may be 4 hours, but you'll be having…
Children of terrible fathers and absent mothers.
An ambitious, outrageously sprawling epic about love, lust, religion, cults, adolescent angst, identity, family, friendship, lies, boners, neglect, rebellion, trauma, and the art of up-skirt photography. It may sound like a lot (as it should) but this is barely scratching the surface of the densely filled buffet that is Love Exposure.
A boy, two girls. Three people who have suffered because of their families. Their paths converge and collide in the only way Sion Sono knows how. Love Exposure exists at a crossroads between religion, love, family, and perversion. In these three people's cases, it is either their parents' own baggage, unstable nature, or lack of humanity that forever changes their lives and…
