2008 · drama · comedy · romance
Love Exposure
Directed by Sion Sono3h 57m2008
The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an upskirt 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.
Our read: Love Exposure (2008) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal drama · comedy · romance entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, extreme drama / comedy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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- surreal
- signature
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