Love Exposure
Life is what you make of it, being a pervert is just one way of life.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 3 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 20, 2011
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Ando, Makiko Watanabe & Atsuro Watabe | |
Directed by | Sion Sono | |
Screenwriting by | Sion Sono | |
Composition by | YuraYura Teikoku & Tomohide Harada | |
Director of Photography: | Sohei Tanigawa |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Love Exposure is, in a sense, Shion Sono's equivalent of the Great Russian novel.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Would the film be easier to take in a more condensed form? Of course it would, but then it wouldn't be the singularly overwhelming oddity that it is.
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Los Angeles Times
Manga-indebted but without lens trickery, this is exhilarating cinema experience.
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
[E]ndearingly romantic. And at four hours, the obstacles to young love are so relentless and imposing that just getting through the journey yields an emotional high. -- Grade: A-
A.V. Club
Rating: 4/5 --
Exhibiting astonishing dexterity, Mr. Sono shapes all this trauma into a narrative that's completely coherent and surprisingly touching, never more so than in Yu's struggle toward sexual maturity.
New York Times
It's a campy rampage that runs a few minutes shy of four hours, dooming what otherwise would likely be a bright future as a midnight movie.
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NPR
Rating: 2/5 --
It's different, but it's exhausting. Without ever being funny, it keeps up a strident, cartoonish tone for all of its four hours.
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Sunday Times (UK)
Product Description:
One young man's journey to find the girl of his dreams and please his father takes an unfathomable number of wrong turns and bizarre detours in this epic-scale comedy drama from writer and director Sion Sono. Yu Tsunoda (Takahiro Nishijima) grew up believing in his mother's admonition to find and marry a girl who was pure of heart when he grew up, and after her death, Yu's father (Atsuro Watabe) became a Catholic priest who's very interested in the state of Yu's purity. Father is convinced Yu is guilty of more sins than he's willing to confess; that isn't actually the case, but in order to please his dad, Yu sets out to rack up a more impressive record of wrongdoing. Yu becomes a small-time pornographer, trafficking in photos surreptitiously taken by pointing his camera up the skirts of young women, and his work is impressive enough that he's approached by an adult film company to star in a string of porn films for them. But just as Yu is getting involved in some serious sin, he meets Yoko (Hikari Mitsushima), a beautiful and virginal teenage girl who is appalled by the behavior of most men -- so much so that she constantly challenges them to martial arts battles, which she invariably wins. Yu sets out to win Yoko's heart, but their courtship attracts the attention of Aya Koike (Sakura Ando), a member of a religious cult who thinks she can recruit them to their numbers. AI NO MUKIDASHI (aka LOVE EXPOSURE) was an official selection at the 2009 New York Asian Film Festival.
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- Sales Rank: 24,817
- UPC: 887090031509
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