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Love Exposure

Original title: Ai no mukidashi
  • 20082008
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 3h 57m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
15K
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Yûko Genkaku, Hikari Mitsushima, Takahiro Nishijima, Sakura Ando, and Sô Hirosawa in Love Exposure (2008)
ActionComedyDrama
A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
15K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Sion Sono
  • Writer
    • Sion Sono(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Takahiro Nishijima
    • Hikari Mitsushima
    • Sakura Ando
  • Director
    • Sion Sono
  • Writer
    • Sion Sono(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Takahiro Nishijima
    • Hikari Mitsushima
    • Sakura Ando
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 82User reviews
    • 121Critic reviews
    • 78Metascore
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 17 wins & 3 nominations

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    Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hikari Mitsushima, and Takahiro Nishijima in Love Exposure (2008)
    Hikari Mitsushima, Takahiro Nishijima, and Sakura Ando in Love Exposure (2008)
    Hikari Mitsushima and Takahiro Nishijima in Love Exposure (2008)
    Hikari Mitsushima in Love Exposure (2008)
    Hikari Mitsushima in Love Exposure (2008)
    Yûko Genkaku, Sakura Ando, and Sô Hirosawa in Love Exposure (2008)
    Hikari Mitsushima in Love Exposure (2008)
    Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka, Takahiro Nishijima, and Yutaka Shimizu in Love Exposure (2008)
    Atsuro Watabe in Love Exposure (2008)
    Takahiro Nishijima in Love Exposure (2008)
    Yûko Genkaku, Sakura Ando, and Sô Hirosawa in Love Exposure (2008)
    Takahiro Nishijima in Love Exposure (2008)

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    Takahiro Nishijima
    • Yû
    Hikari Mitsushima
    Hikari Mitsushima
    • Yôko
    Sakura Ando
    Sakura Ando
    • Koike
    • (as Sakura Andô)
    Yutaka Shimizu
    • Yûji
    Makiko Watanabe
    Makiko Watanabe
    • Kaori
    Hiroyuki Onoue
    • Takahiro
    Atsuro Watabe
    • Tetsu
    Tasuku Nagaoka
    Tasuku Nagaoka
    • Senpai
    Sô Hirosawa
    • Kumi
    Yûko Genkaku
    • Keiko
    Mami Nakamura
    • Yû no Haha
    Arata Yamanaka
    • Roido no Deshi A
    Junya Iwamoto
    • Roido no Deshi B
    Motoki Ochiai
    • Koike no Sukina Otoko
    Sango
    • DJ
    Atsushi Yamanaka
    • Tannin no Sensei
    Kôichi Koshimura
    • Kyôtô
    Shingo Tanaka
    • Bomber
    • Director
      • Sion Sono
    • Writer
      • Sion Sono(screenplay) (story)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The film gained a considerable amount of notoriety in film festivals around the world for its four-hour duration and themes including love, family, lust, religion and the art of upskirt photography. The first version was originally six hours long, but was trimmed at the request of the producers.
    • Goofs
      When Yu takes the elevator with the cult leader, they are going to the sixth floor, but it's just the 8th floor button that we see lightened.
    • Quotes

      Yôko: Jesus, I approve of you as the only cool man besides Kurt Cobain

    • Connections
      Followed by Cold Fish (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      Kûdô desu
      Music by Yura Yura Teikoku

      Words by Shintarô Sakamoto

      Performed by Yura Yura Teikoku

      Courtesy of Sony Music Associated Records

    User reviews82

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    Suspend disbelief
    For me, "Love Exposure" is something of a terrific one-off experience. How to begin to describe with any degree of rationality the extraordinary effect of bewildering excitement it has had on a near octogenarian, is a task I find daunting. And yet for a work unlike any other in its helter-skelter delivery of an adolescent's quest for romantic fulfilment ( which I suppose is what it is all about), I feel I should at least take up the challenge. With such an engagingly innocent central character as schoolboy Yu, it seems completely natural to suspend disbelief and go along with everything he experiences, including his hilarious initiation into the skills of a panty photographer, his role as father-confessor at a perverts' convention and his attack with explosives and much blood letting on the HQ of a brainwashing religious cult. Buried beneath it all there could well be many serious messages (you get a big chunk of Corinthians!) or it could be just a pile of tosh. But in the end, who cares, such is the delirious pleasure that just under four hours of outrageous goings-on have delivered. I suppose I just love the theme of innocent youngsters taking on the wicked world. Gosh! I am still reeling, my critical faculties all but shattered!
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    • jandesimpson
    • May 19, 2012

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 31, 2009 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Tình Yêu Tội Lỗi
    • Filming locations
      • Dog statue, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
    • Production company
      • Omega Project
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      3 hours 57 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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